This is an excellent post. I agree that status is a ridiculously powerful driver of human behavior. Based on your section of how EA can help increase status, what do you think is the single most promising strategy that EA could implement to make joining EA higher status? (Also a side note I’d add is that status *from who* is important. People outside EA don’t care about within-EA status currency, yet, they care about status currency from their existing peers and people they respect. So they’d need to believe that joining EA makes them higher status outside of EA.)
Also, has anyone looked at whether EA is at the right time for scaling? In startups there’s the framework that you want to solve your value hypothesis first, and then once you’ve done that, and only then, you should focus on your growth hypothesis. Basically get it working just how you like it with a small number of customers/users and then focus on scaling up. Is EA at the point where people want to focus on scaling? I think it probably is, but I still wanted to ask the obvious question.
This is an excellent post. I agree that status is a ridiculously powerful driver of human behavior. Based on your section of how EA can help increase status, what do you think is the single most promising strategy that EA could implement to make joining EA higher status? (Also a side note I’d add is that status *from who* is important. People outside EA don’t care about within-EA status currency, yet, they care about status currency from their existing peers and people they respect. So they’d need to believe that joining EA makes them higher status outside of EA.)
Also, has anyone looked at whether EA is at the right time for scaling? In startups there’s the framework that you want to solve your value hypothesis first, and then once you’ve done that, and only then, you should focus on your growth hypothesis. Basically get it working just how you like it with a small number of customers/users and then focus on scaling up. Is EA at the point where people want to focus on scaling? I think it probably is, but I still wanted to ask the obvious question.