1. More scalable testing. Use online courses not because you expect them to raise the sanity waterline, but because you can more rapidly and scalably test different courses, until your courses are so good that you can teach them adequately without being live.
2. More engagement with the existing organizations and processes that have already worked on the problem. Have two people who’s primary goal is to go to other self-help workshops/therapy sessions, steal the best stuff, and bring it back.
3. More focus on group rationality and new forms of organizations. Experiment with new ways to work together and new ways to organize.
4. Experiment with longer form 2-3 month bootcamps which involve progress on real world projects. Take a percentage of the profits and therefore align yourself towards actual winning.
Some specific ideas, particularly “What is the best way to give at a conference?”, need not be optimized so much, but the same idea applies to everything, or at least a clear goal set in the first place.
The idea of an online course sounds quite interesting. CFAR workshops only run for a certain amount of time, but I’m sure there are extra lessons that they’d love to be able to squeeze in. This could provide a solution.
Also, it’s very hard to have a strong, lifelong influence over someone over the course of just a long weekend. I agree that there could be huge value with a longer format.
1. More scalable testing. Use online courses not because you expect them to raise the sanity waterline, but because you can more rapidly and scalably test different courses, until your courses are so good that you can teach them adequately without being live.
2. More engagement with the existing organizations and processes that have already worked on the problem. Have two people who’s primary goal is to go to other self-help workshops/therapy sessions, steal the best stuff, and bring it back.
3. More focus on group rationality and new forms of organizations. Experiment with new ways to work together and new ways to organize.
4. Experiment with longer form 2-3 month bootcamps which involve progress on real world projects. Take a percentage of the profits and therefore align yourself towards actual winning.
Some specific ideas, particularly “What is the best way to give at a conference?”, need not be optimized so much, but the same idea applies to everything, or at least a clear goal set in the first place.
The idea of an online course sounds quite interesting. CFAR workshops only run for a certain amount of time, but I’m sure there are extra lessons that they’d love to be able to squeeze in. This could provide a solution.
Also, it’s very hard to have a strong, lifelong influence over someone over the course of just a long weekend. I agree that there could be huge value with a longer format.