My main bottleneck is finding excellent guests.

What I’m looking for in guests

I’m looking for people who are deep experts in at least one field, and who are polymathic enough to think through all kinds of tangential questions in a really interesting way.

So I’m selecting for this synthetic ability to connect one’s expertise to all kinds of important questions about the world – an ability which is often deliberately masked in public academic work. Which means that it can only really come out in conversation.

That’s why I want to hire scouts. I need their network and context – they know who the polymathic geniuses are, who gave a fascinating lecture at the last big conference they attended, who can just connect all kinds of interesting ideas in the field together over conversation, etc.