The Field Building Blog

The aim of this blog is to share knowledge among community builders.

There are good resources on CB in the form of resource centres, talks, and guides. Still, I feel none of these really show “how the sausage is made” the same way one can go down a rabbit hole when they want to read about take-off speeds. I have found myself explaining the same considerations about funding, heavy-tailed impact, retreats and the like to new community builders many times. In its least ambitious version, this blog will at least serve as a place where I can point people to.

I think the most valuable conversations on field building are happening when people share their hot takes at conferences, retreats, or between staff members of fieldbuilding orgs that are just a bit too edgy to write up for the EA forum. The aim of this blog will be to host such conversations, talk about big-picture strategy in fieldbuilding and share my work experience of the space from the past years. I want to help new community builders to peek behind the curtain, and experienced ones to share their thoughts unapologetically. I also want to improve epistemics around field building and help people become better calibrated in assessing its value.