The interesting question would be whether in a parallel universe, where these people started by asking people to create a community, they have better results.
Maybe some ideas are unlikely to succeed even if one chooses a good strategy. (Like, a good strategy could increase the probability of success from 1% to 20%, but there is still a big chance to fail.)
I don’t think that gathering support before starting a community project is the only thing that important.
For a lot of websites split testing reveals that small changes of the website can have a substantial effect on the success of a website.
On Amazon a 100ms delay in the speed in which websites display causes them 1% of their sales. I think it’s pretty clear that execution of ideas on the web matters a great deal.
I don’t think that questions like the of the rules of the community are straightforward. Does Brendon Wong want to lead it as a benevolent dictator?
By going through his posts I didn’t found anything written about personal development expect the fact that he mentioned that he learned speed reading. Learning speed reading is certainly a good sign because that takes deliberate practice but doesn’t demostrate that he has the necessary experience to lead such a project.
Especially when it comes to excluding people for perusing personal development from a spiritual angle and excluding people who are just there to add links to commerical projects.
Doing something under the header of LessWrong has the advantage of not having to discuss the issue of control of the website.
The interesting question would be whether in a parallel universe, where these people started by asking people to create a community, they have better results.
Maybe some ideas are unlikely to succeed even if one chooses a good strategy. (Like, a good strategy could increase the probability of success from 1% to 20%, but there is still a big chance to fail.)
I don’t think that gathering support before starting a community project is the only thing that important.
For a lot of websites split testing reveals that small changes of the website can have a substantial effect on the success of a website.
On Amazon a 100ms delay in the speed in which websites display causes them 1% of their sales. I think it’s pretty clear that execution of ideas on the web matters a great deal.
I don’t think that questions like the of the rules of the community are straightforward. Does Brendon Wong want to lead it as a benevolent dictator?
By going through his posts I didn’t found anything written about personal development expect the fact that he mentioned that he learned speed reading. Learning speed reading is certainly a good sign because that takes deliberate practice but doesn’t demostrate that he has the necessary experience to lead such a project. Especially when it comes to excluding people for perusing personal development from a spiritual angle and excluding people who are just there to add links to commerical projects.
Doing something under the header of LessWrong has the advantage of not having to discuss the issue of control of the website.