I am curious to know more about the ‘get into dream project and only be able to achieve a fraction of it’ at CG and elsewhere, since as I work in an EA org, I do not really recognize this—we do cheap tests for ambitious ideas and if the results are not good enough a few months later we abort/change the scale or ambition. It creates a feeling of unease in me that EA orgs trust people to do big things only to never have these finished, because it seems very wasteful, in terms of money at least (career capital I get it).
On that note, I find that is one of the hardest profiles to find in EA—someone who is not only ambitious and does apply the ITN framework and other concepts in the range of counterfactuals etc but also that actually sticks to the project and make it happen/is able to let go when things are not as effective as planned. I met plenty of folks that are smart—‘we are all smart here’ is the feeling in the room often—but persistence? That is much harder to find. If anyone has good resources on how to find these people/design work test to identify these people, I am very happy to see it.
I am curious to know more about the ‘get into dream project and only be able to achieve a fraction of it’ at CG and elsewhere, since as I work in an EA org, I do not really recognize this—we do cheap tests for ambitious ideas and if the results are not good enough a few months later we abort/change the scale or ambition. It creates a feeling of unease in me that EA orgs trust people to do big things only to never have these finished, because it seems very wasteful, in terms of money at least (career capital I get it).
On that note, I find that is one of the hardest profiles to find in EA—someone who is not only ambitious and does apply the ITN framework and other concepts in the range of counterfactuals etc but also that actually sticks to the project and make it happen/is able to let go when things are not as effective as planned. I met plenty of folks that are smart—‘we are all smart here’ is the feeling in the room often—but persistence? That is much harder to find. If anyone has good resources on how to find these people/design work test to identify these people, I am very happy to see it.