I find this quite useful to avoid the failure mode that worries me the most, namely, that once one derives a source of income from being a community builder, their incentives start to look like “do whatever gets me renovated” and less like “do whatever I really believe is most impactful”.
So separating the operations layer (professional), from the more ideological/opinionable layer (not paid) seems like a very good idea to me.
The analogy with quakers having pastor and administrator roles separated is helpful to me to put words on why I have complicated feelings about EA paid CB roles, because they are in some sense both.
I find this quite useful to avoid the failure mode that worries me the most, namely, that once one derives a source of income from being a community builder, their incentives start to look like “do whatever gets me renovated” and less like “do whatever I really believe is most impactful”.
So separating the operations layer (professional), from the more ideological/opinionable layer (not paid) seems like a very good idea to me.
The analogy with quakers having pastor and administrator roles separated is helpful to me to put words on why I have complicated feelings about EA paid CB roles, because they are in some sense both.