“Real Mission Work” generally takes the form of an actual full-time job (many new projects start off as a weird scrappy hybrid of “random project / startup”, but IMO basically the goal is to transition into serious fulltime work once you’ve demonstrated that you are capable enough to get funding)
Mission work varies in how much it’s like a startup, and how much it’s like an ordinary non-startup-job. Startup-like mission-orgs are probably hard to work at if you have kids. (I think I recall Paul Graham or someone claiming that you can pick two: Startup, Hobbies, Kids. So you might have kids but not otherwise have a life, and shouldn’t have both parents be startup-ing)
I think I still generally agree with the points you make about keeping inactive people in the circle, and that a village without kids makes more sense to see through the Campus lens.
“Real Mission Work” generally takes the form of an actual full-time job (many new projects start off as a weird scrappy hybrid of “random project / startup”, but IMO basically the goal is to transition into serious fulltime work once you’ve demonstrated that you are capable enough to get funding)
Mission work varies in how much it’s like a startup, and how much it’s like an ordinary non-startup-job. Startup-like mission-orgs are probably hard to work at if you have kids. (I think I recall Paul Graham or someone claiming that you can pick two: Startup, Hobbies, Kids. So you might have kids but not otherwise have a life, and shouldn’t have both parents be startup-ing)
I think I still generally agree with the points you make about keeping inactive people in the circle, and that a village without kids makes more sense to see through the Campus lens.