so exciting!!!!
Kris Chari
Fully agree! Our university group uses a virtual assistant for ~20 hours/month, which saves us ~10 hours/month (it does take some time to explain stuff, and our assistant takes slightly longer to do the same tasks). I expect our time savings to increase substantially when classes resume and our group is a lot more active.
Thanks for writing this post, and I agree with a lot of it! Regarding the point about poor feedback loops, could the signals below be evidence that things are going well?
Members take ideas seriously and seem to care deeply about improving the world.
Members engage in thoughtful cause prioritization and try to resolve their philosophical uncertainties.
Members learn about problems they find most important.
Members skill-up so they’re each better able to contribute to the problem they want to work on.
Members start new projects, work with EA orgs (e.g. summer internship), and/or get mentorship from people who’ve been working on the same problem for longer.
If you or anyone else is interested in trying some rare Chinese tofus and are in London, I can take you on a tour.
The best tofu tours are by George, of course, but in his absence I try to get the same rare tofus and provide some (small) fraction of the context he does when he leads tofu tours.