I was glad to see this included in the post, although I can see why it could seem weird / surprising. Since an important part of CEA’s role is to grow the EA community in a healthy way, it seems like an important outcome measure of whether CEA is doing its job is whether the EA community is in fact growing in a healthy way (and more specifically what parts of that are going well and badly). That seems like a particularly hard outcome to measure, and it would seem easy and understandable to blame others the parts that aren’t going well rather than taking responsibility and thinking about how to improve things. It’s great that you’re finding ways to get a sense of how things are going, and figuring out what CEA can do to improve things.
I was glad to see this included in the post, although I can see why it could seem weird / surprising. Since an important part of CEA’s role is to grow the EA community in a healthy way, it seems like an important outcome measure of whether CEA is doing its job is whether the EA community is in fact growing in a healthy way (and more specifically what parts of that are going well and badly). That seems like a particularly hard outcome to measure, and it would seem easy and understandable to blame others the parts that aren’t going well rather than taking responsibility and thinking about how to improve things. It’s great that you’re finding ways to get a sense of how things are going, and figuring out what CEA can do to improve things.