I’m curious. Do you only think it’s worth being connected to the community if your ideas get funded by the community? You’ve got a cool idea, but a lot of other people have cool ideas too and not everything can be funded.
I guess I see the community offering a host of other potential benefits as well, such as feedback, frameworks, access to talent, ect. I know it must be frustrating, but sometimes the negatives cloud out the positives. And there’s nothing wrong if you disagree with me here, just thought I’d offer another way of seeing things.
Again, from my (an admitted outsider) perspective there seems to be a tension between “this is who we’re for and this is how we do things” and the actual goal of maximizing impact. I’m all about trying to maximize impact, I’m not sure that I would have been a part of the various organizations that EA seems to be an amalgamation of.
I think a bigger tent version of EA is definitely a community I could join, but as it stands right now the biggest benefit for me is connecting with individuals within the movement that are like-minded. This post and some other conversations have really helped me do that.
I’m curious. Do you only think it’s worth being connected to the community if your ideas get funded by the community? You’ve got a cool idea, but a lot of other people have cool ideas too and not everything can be funded.
I guess I see the community offering a host of other potential benefits as well, such as feedback, frameworks, access to talent, ect. I know it must be frustrating, but sometimes the negatives cloud out the positives. And there’s nothing wrong if you disagree with me here, just thought I’d offer another way of seeing things.
Again, from my (an admitted outsider) perspective there seems to be a tension between “this is who we’re for and this is how we do things” and the actual goal of maximizing impact. I’m all about trying to maximize impact, I’m not sure that I would have been a part of the various organizations that EA seems to be an amalgamation of.
I think a bigger tent version of EA is definitely a community I could join, but as it stands right now the biggest benefit for me is connecting with individuals within the movement that are like-minded. This post and some other conversations have really helped me do that.
I’m happy to hear you have been able to make some worthwhile connections.