My chief guess for why this happens is people don’t realize it’s an option or understand the distinction, and it isn’t in their skillset or area of interest so they don’t dig deep enough to find out.
Actually, wow, that “people” sure sounds like I’m talking about someone else. Hi, I personally didn’t have the phrase “public benefit corporation” cached in my head and I’m not actually sure what the distinction between that and a nonprofit is. That’s not because it’s totally irrelevant to my interests either. I’ve talked with two or three people over the last year specifically seeking advice on how to set up the legal structure for an organization that wasn’t aiming to make a profit, and “public benefit corporation” isn’t in my notes from any of those conversations. These weren’t random people either! One was a director of a non-profit and the other was an (off the clock) lawyer!
And I think I’m unusually interested in organizational structure for someone in this space. There’s a kind of corollary to Being The (Pareto) Best in the World, where you start to see that there are (for example) incredibly talented biologists all over, highly skilled statisticians available if you know where to look, but a comparatively far smaller number of expert biologist-statisticians. Adroitness with the intricacies of bureaucratic organizational structure is a third skill. Stripe Atlas has put some serious work into making the process of creating an organization easy and painless for people fluent in Internet because it’s common for someone with the WebDesign-ViableBusiness skill overlap to not have put any points in Organizational Bureaucracy. If you want a biologist-statistician-bureaucrat, you are looking for what’s actually a pretty narrow slice of the population! If a biologist-statistician (or any other fertile combination of non-bureaucrat-adjacent skills) wanted to do some biology-statistics and someone else offered to handle the organizational backend, I absolutely understand why they might jump at it!
(Over the last year, I’ve started to regard Being The (Pareto) Best in the World in much the same way that one regards a dread prophecy of doom, spoken from a rent in the air above some sulphurous chasm. The blindingly obvious gaps I see in the world are often at the intersections of three different skillsets.)
Lest I sound like I have zero suggestions: Do you recommend something for people to read if they want to do a quick bit of upskilling here?
My chief guess for why this happens is people don’t realize it’s an option or understand the distinction, and it isn’t in their skillset or area of interest so they don’t dig deep enough to find out.
Actually, wow, that “people” sure sounds like I’m talking about someone else. Hi, I personally didn’t have the phrase “public benefit corporation” cached in my head and I’m not actually sure what the distinction between that and a nonprofit is. That’s not because it’s totally irrelevant to my interests either. I’ve talked with two or three people over the last year specifically seeking advice on how to set up the legal structure for an organization that wasn’t aiming to make a profit, and “public benefit corporation” isn’t in my notes from any of those conversations. These weren’t random people either! One was a director of a non-profit and the other was an (off the clock) lawyer!
And I think I’m unusually interested in organizational structure for someone in this space. There’s a kind of corollary to Being The (Pareto) Best in the World, where you start to see that there are (for example) incredibly talented biologists all over, highly skilled statisticians available if you know where to look, but a comparatively far smaller number of expert biologist-statisticians. Adroitness with the intricacies of bureaucratic organizational structure is a third skill. Stripe Atlas has put some serious work into making the process of creating an organization easy and painless for people fluent in Internet because it’s common for someone with the WebDesign-ViableBusiness skill overlap to not have put any points in Organizational Bureaucracy. If you want a biologist-statistician-bureaucrat, you are looking for what’s actually a pretty narrow slice of the population! If a biologist-statistician (or any other fertile combination of non-bureaucrat-adjacent skills) wanted to do some biology-statistics and someone else offered to handle the organizational backend, I absolutely understand why they might jump at it!
(Over the last year, I’ve started to regard Being The (Pareto) Best in the World in much the same way that one regards a dread prophecy of doom, spoken from a rent in the air above some sulphurous chasm. The blindingly obvious gaps I see in the world are often at the intersections of three different skillsets.)
Lest I sound like I have zero suggestions: Do you recommend something for people to read if they want to do a quick bit of upskilling here?