I think this is really a discussion of norms, boundaries and expectations. I don’t think that any community can easily bring out the best in everyone and what may be best for one person may not be best for another.
I am prone to neuroticism—I like to think about things for a long time. Perhaps the prioritising nature of EA is a little bad for me, whereas for someone who doesn’t do this at all, it’s probably good on net.
It’s very easy to think that we all want or need the same thing, but I don’t sense this is the case. And as EA is both a work and social community this becomes more complicated—while it seems possible to make a work space for a set of 50 people, the idea that we can make a unified community that caters for the work and social habits of 5000 people. That seems very difficult.
I think this is really a discussion of norms, boundaries and expectations. I don’t think that any community can easily bring out the best in everyone and what may be best for one person may not be best for another.
I am prone to neuroticism—I like to think about things for a long time. Perhaps the prioritising nature of EA is a little bad for me, whereas for someone who doesn’t do this at all, it’s probably good on net.
It’s very easy to think that we all want or need the same thing, but I don’t sense this is the case. And as EA is both a work and social community this becomes more complicated—while it seems possible to make a work space for a set of 50 people, the idea that we can make a unified community that caters for the work and social habits of 5000 people. That seems very difficult.