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Longtermist EA needs more Phase 2 work - EA Forum

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I think there is an issue with the community-wide allocation of effort. A very large proportion of our effort goes into preparation work, setting the community up for future successes; and very littl…

[anonymous] 4y 65 0 0 Thanks for writing this. I had had similar thoughts. I have some scattered observations: I find those bullshitty personality tests one sometimes does on work retreats quite instructive on this. On personality tests of analytic/driver/affable/expressive , EAs probably cluster hard in the analytic section. But really great executors like Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk, Cummings are strongly in the driver section. I have heard that successful businesses are often led by combo teams of drivers and analytical people who can moderate the excesses of each type. The driver personality t

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