I am actually not a huge fan of the “operations bottleneck” framing, and so don’t really have a great response to that. Maybe I can write something longer on this at some point, but the very short summary is that I’ve never seen the term “operations” used in any consistent way, and instead I’ve seen it refer to a very wide range of skillsets of barely-overlapping skillsets that are often very high-skill tasks that people hope to find a person for who is both willing to work with very little autonomy and with comparably little compensation.
I think many orgs have very concrete needs for specific skillsets they need to fill and for which they need good people, but I don’t think there is something like a general and uniform “operations skillset” missing at EA orgs, which makes building infrastructure for this a lot harder.
I am actually not a huge fan of the “operations bottleneck” framing, and so don’t really have a great response to that. Maybe I can write something longer on this at some point, but the very short summary is that I’ve never seen the term “operations” used in any consistent way, and instead I’ve seen it refer to a very wide range of skillsets of barely-overlapping skillsets that are often very high-skill tasks that people hope to find a person for who is both willing to work with very little autonomy and with comparably little compensation.
I think many orgs have very concrete needs for specific skillsets they need to fill and for which they need good people, but I don’t think there is something like a general and uniform “operations skillset” missing at EA orgs, which makes building infrastructure for this a lot harder.