I would be interested in seeing more applied fields, and also specializations which operate at the intersection of multiple fields. Some examples include:
Operators, in the sense of people with executive responsibility. I have enjoyed reading the after-action reports from the organizing experiences and foundation-forming to come from this website and EA.
Finance, which is essentially the field of applied distribution of risk. We have finance people on here, but there seems to be little content in terms of top-level posts from them (the easiest way to tell there are finance people present is to look at the top-level finance posts and then look at the criticism in the comments).
Industrial or Systems Engineering, which are fields dedicated to integrating other fields and applied optimization of the group all together.
The adjacent memeplex of Effective Altruism seems to have a bunch of operations and finance people in it.
We might consider trying to target people who are connected to teaching or instruction in their area of expertise somehow. I expect the average level of engagement with a new subject is quite a bit deeper here than in most other communities, so we might be in a position to offer an audience of motivated learners as an enticement to them. Simultaneously, the instruction experience will help with the problem of technical posts having too high a threshold to engage with them.
I would be interested in seeing more applied fields, and also specializations which operate at the intersection of multiple fields. Some examples include:
Operators, in the sense of people with executive responsibility. I have enjoyed reading the after-action reports from the organizing experiences and foundation-forming to come from this website and EA.
Finance, which is essentially the field of applied distribution of risk. We have finance people on here, but there seems to be little content in terms of top-level posts from them (the easiest way to tell there are finance people present is to look at the top-level finance posts and then look at the criticism in the comments).
Industrial or Systems Engineering, which are fields dedicated to integrating other fields and applied optimization of the group all together.
The adjacent memeplex of Effective Altruism seems to have a bunch of operations and finance people in it.
We might consider trying to target people who are connected to teaching or instruction in their area of expertise somehow. I expect the average level of engagement with a new subject is quite a bit deeper here than in most other communities, so we might be in a position to offer an audience of motivated learners as an enticement to them. Simultaneously, the instruction experience will help with the problem of technical posts having too high a threshold to engage with them.