I agree EAs underrate going into non-EA projects to buy themselves skills and also time to work on their project as as side-project while it gains traction. However, I’ve been a bit surprised how frequently this doesn’t seem to have worked and people go into non-EA projects and never come back to EA. I’d be curious to learn more about that and whether the EA Hotel can be a better option.
I imagine EA’s getting into all sorts of fields and industries while staying in the community, and this seems so valuable that it makes me second-guess the hotel.
People don’t stay in the community because, if you’re not involved professionally, there’s not much left to gain. We should change that.
I’ve proposed a solution to this problem here and here
To avoid people becoming overly dependent, we do have a hard limit of 2 years for stays at the hotel (most people seem to be going for somewhere in the range of 3-12 months).
I agree EAs underrate going into non-EA projects to buy themselves skills and also time to work on their project as as side-project while it gains traction. However, I’ve been a bit surprised how frequently this doesn’t seem to have worked and people go into non-EA projects and never come back to EA. I’d be curious to learn more about that and whether the EA Hotel can be a better option.
I imagine EA’s getting into all sorts of fields and industries while staying in the community, and this seems so valuable that it makes me second-guess the hotel.
People don’t stay in the community because, if you’re not involved professionally, there’s not much left to gain. We should change that.
I’ve proposed a solution to this problem here and here
I do worry that the EA Hotel gives people too easy of an excuse to not have to do the hard thing of finding something outside of EA. This kind of phenomenon came up in the comments of the widely acclaimed “getting a job in EA is hard” post.
To avoid people becoming overly dependent, we do have a hard limit of 2 years for stays at the hotel (most people seem to be going for somewhere in the range of 3-12 months).