I really appreciate your honest response—thanks for sticking your neck out.
I think you’ve layered on nuance / different perspectives which enables a richer understanding in some regards, and in some others I think we diverge mostly on how big a risk we perceive non-EAs in senior roles as presenting relative to value they bring. I think we might have fundamental disagreements about ‘the value of outside perspectives’ Vs. ‘the need for context to add value’; or put another way ‘the risk of an echo chamber from too-like-minded people’ Vs. ‘the risk of fracture and bad decision-making from not-like-minded-enough people’.
I’m going to have a think about what the most interesting / useful way to respond might be; I suspect it would be a bit dull / less useful to just rebutt point by point rather than get deeper, but don’t want to infer your drivers too much. Will likey build on this later in the week.
Glad to see the number of up-votes, clearly other people were thinking something similar. But it kind of worries me there hasn’t been more dissent or nuance thrown in? So I would invite anyone to speak up who thinks...:
this isn’t as big a problem as I’ve made it come across
the arguments around hiring from outside EA are not that strong
who read this, felt they were the target audience, but didn’t change their mind for whatever reason
It would feel weird if after writing all this out I didn’t come away feeling like I learned something!