An outstanding post I have in the works is “Everything is leadership bottlenecked” (with “Intentional Community is leadership bottlenecked” being a special case).
It took a long time to even get one instance of Dragon Army, because you had to get someone who A) had a coherent philosophy, B) was willing to sink huge amount of time and money into a project. And then the project didn’t work out, which isn’t too surprising because most projects don’t. But, we don’t a huge surplus of leaders will doing to organize something like this.
I considered organizing something like Dragon Army, and eventually realized it wouldn’t actually provide enough value relative to other things I could do. What leadership energy I have is invested in things like improving LessWrong (i.e. causing things like the Review to happen).
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An outstanding post I have in the works is “Everything is leadership bottlenecked” (with “Intentional Community is leadership bottlenecked” being a special case).
It took a long time to even get one instance of Dragon Army, because you had to get someone who A) had a coherent philosophy, B) was willing to sink huge amount of time and money into a project. And then the project didn’t work out, which isn’t too surprising because most projects don’t. But, we don’t a huge surplus of leaders will doing to organize something like this.
I considered organizing something like Dragon Army, and eventually realized it wouldn’t actually provide enough value relative to other things I could do. What leadership energy I have is invested in things like improving LessWrong (i.e. causing things like the Review to happen).