Your experience reminded me of how Holden Karnofsky described his career so far:
The general theme of my career is just taking questions, especially questions about how to give effectively, where it’s just like no one’s really gotten started on this question. Even doing a pretty crappy analysis can be better than what already exists. So often what I have done in my career, what I consider myself to have kind of specialized in, in a sense, is I do the first cut crappy analysis of some question that has not been analyzed much and is very important. Then I build a team to do better analysis of that question. That’s been my general pattern. I think that’s the most generalizable skill I’ve had
Your experience reminded me of how Holden Karnofsky described his career so far:
Thanks, though tbc Holden’s way better at it than I am!