One is brain drain, as you mentioned. I wrote a little about this in the “keeping one’s eye on the ball” section of this comment. I think we should be reasoning about the bay as “look at all these magical things happening there” and constantly panicking about the opportunity cost every day we’re not creating more bays in other places.
Another has to do with
one of us should have (a) tried to have weekly calls with the remaining Penn organizers, and (b) connected them with GCP.
And why Quinn M wasn’t tapped, or myself. Is there a view formed that people in their later 20s out working aren’t a super good fit for university work? Is there a view formed that top universities are culturally particular, and that people who weren’t at top universities would screw it up? Things like this seem plausible to me, but I’m shooting in the dark.
But moreover, I’m really glad to read your comment about weighing CB against anything else CBers could be doing. (I have concerns about the movement doing so much advocacy that we build out the wrong skillsets, and so on).
And why Quinn M wasn’t tapped, or myself. Is there a view formed that people in their later 20s out working aren’t a super good fit for university work? Is there a view formed that top universities are culturally particular, and that people who weren’t at top universities would screw it up? Things like this seem plausible to me, but I’m shooting in the dark.
My view is some of (1) and not much of (2), and people who think more about university groups might have more concerns. The point at which we made the mistake was probably not even thinking about it, and it’s plausible that if we had, we would have connected them to EA Philly.
I see two open discussions here.
One is brain drain, as you mentioned. I wrote a little about this in the “keeping one’s eye on the ball” section of this comment. I think we should be reasoning about the bay as “look at all these magical things happening there” and constantly panicking about the opportunity cost every day we’re not creating more bays in other places.
Another has to do with
And why Quinn M wasn’t tapped, or myself. Is there a view formed that people in their later 20s out working aren’t a super good fit for university work? Is there a view formed that top universities are culturally particular, and that people who weren’t at top universities would screw it up? Things like this seem plausible to me, but I’m shooting in the dark.
But moreover, I’m really glad to read your comment about weighing CB against anything else CBers could be doing. (I have concerns about the movement doing so much advocacy that we build out the wrong skillsets, and so on).
My view is some of (1) and not much of (2), and people who think more about university groups might have more concerns. The point at which we made the mistake was probably not even thinking about it, and it’s plausible that if we had, we would have connected them to EA Philly.