The aim of this blog is to share knowledge among community builders.

There are good resources on CB in the form of resource centres, talks, and guides. Still, I feel none of these really show “how the sausage is made” the same way one can go down a rabbit hole when they want to read about take-off speeds. I have found myself explaining the same considerations about funding, heavy-tailed impact, retreats and the like to new community builders many times. In its least ambitious version, this blog will at least serve as a place where I can point people to.

I think the most valuable conversations on field building are happening when people share their hot takes at conferences, retreats, or between staff members of fieldbuilding orgs that are just a bit too edgy to write up for the EA forum. The aim of this blog will be to host such conversations, talk about big-picture strategy in fieldbuilding and share my work experience of the space from the past years. I want to help new community builders to peek behind the curtain, and experienced ones to share their thoughts unapologetically. I also want to improve epistemics around field building and help people become better calibrated in assessing its value.