For the sake of clarification, I do think it’s more likely than not that I’ll stay at Rethink Priorities for quite some time, even if I do end up incubating a new project (though of course details depend on organizational needs etc). I mention this because I talked to multiple people who thought that I was more likely to leave than stay, and in some cases made additional inferences about the quality or importance of research there based on pretty little information.
(I’m still fairly confused about this implication and this isn’t the first time that a job-related post I made apparently had the wrong connotation (I left Google on good terms to join a startup, some people emailed me being worried that I was laid off). My best guess here is that people are usually just really reluctant to be candid about their career-change-related considerations so there’s more of a euphemism treadmill here than elsewhere).
For the sake of clarification, I do think it’s more likely than not that I’ll stay at Rethink Priorities for quite some time, even if I do end up incubating a new project (though of course details depend on organizational needs etc). I mention this because I talked to multiple people who thought that I was more likely to leave than stay, and in some cases made additional inferences about the quality or importance of research there based on pretty little information.
(I’m still fairly confused about this implication and this isn’t the first time that a job-related post I made apparently had the wrong connotation (I left Google on good terms to join a startup, some people emailed me being worried that I was laid off). My best guess here is that people are usually just really reluctant to be candid about their career-change-related considerations so there’s more of a euphemism treadmill here than elsewhere).