My guess is that this post is implicitly aimed at Bay Area EAs, and that roughly every perk at Trajan House/other Oxford locations is acceptable by these standards.
Perhaps worth clarifying this explicitly, if true—it would be unfortunate if the people who were already most scrupulous about perks were the ones who updated most from this post.
I think it would be good if the OP would clarify which office perks he is criticising. Perks vary a lot across offices—probably more generous at Google and hedge funds, less at Amazon, less at a paper merchant in Slough, not great for an academia etc. The terms ‘normal’, ‘usual’, ‘nice’ are doing a lot of work in this post but are never defined and I don’t know what they mean. Some things are normal in offices (dishwashers, standing desks) but are also nice.
Maybe this is somewhat indicative of Bay spending culture?
I at least could see someone walking away from Lightcone with the impression that we don’t believe in budgets, and I would be happy to defend our current policy.
My guess is that this post is implicitly aimed at Bay Area EAs, and that roughly every perk at Trajan House/other Oxford locations is acceptable by these standards.
Perhaps worth clarifying this explicitly, if true—it would be unfortunate if the people who were already most scrupulous about perks were the ones who updated most from this post.
I think it would be good if the OP would clarify which office perks he is criticising. Perks vary a lot across offices—probably more generous at Google and hedge funds, less at Amazon, less at a paper merchant in Slough, not great for an academia etc. The terms ‘normal’, ‘usual’, ‘nice’ are doing a lot of work in this post but are never defined and I don’t know what they mean. Some things are normal in offices (dishwashers, standing desks) but are also nice.
What’s the difference between Bay Area spaces and Trajan ? They seemed roughly the same to me?
Maybe this is somewhat indicative of Bay spending culture?