Iām a 36 year old iOS Engineer/āSoftware Engineer who switched to working on Image classification systems via Tensorflow a year ago. Last month I was made redundant with a fairly generous severance package and good buffer of savings to get me by while unemployed.
The risky step I had long considered of quitting my non-impactful job was taken for me. Iām hoping to capitalize on my free time by determining what career path to take that best fits my goals. Iām pretty excited about it.
I created a weighted factor model to figure out what projects or learning to take on first. I welcome feedback on it. Thereās also a schedule tab for how Iām planning to spend my time this year and a template if anyone wishes to use this spreadsheet their selves.
I got feedback from my 80K hour advisor to get involved in EA communities more often. Iām also want to learn more publicly be it via forums or by blogging. This somewhat unstructured dumping of my thoughts is a first step towards that.
I love the modelāand Iām happy to give feedback on ideas for EA Forum posts if that would ever be helpful! (Iām the Content Strategist for the Forum).
Out of that list Iād guess that the fourth and fifth (depending on topics) bullets are most suitable for the Forum.
The basic way Iād differentiate content is that the Forum frontpage should all be content that is related to the project of effective altruism, the community section is about EA as a community (i.e. if you were into AI Safety but not EA, you wouldnāt be interested in the community section), and āpersonal blogā (i.e. not visible on frontpage) is the section for everything that isnāt in those categories. For example posts on āMiscellaneous topics such as productivity and ADDā would probably be moved to personal blog, unless they were strongly related to EA. This doesnāt mean the content isnāt goodālots of EAs read productivity content, but ideally, the Forum should be focused on EA priorities rather than what EAs find interesting.
Feel free to message me with specific ideas that I could help categorise for you! And if in doubt, quick-takes are much more loose and you can post stuff like the bi-weekly updates there to gauge interest.
Iām a 36 year old iOS Engineer/āSoftware Engineer who switched to working on Image classification systems via Tensorflow a year ago. Last month I was made redundant with a fairly generous severance package and good buffer of savings to get me by while unemployed.
The risky step I had long considered of quitting my non-impactful job was taken for me. Iām hoping to capitalize on my free time by determining what career path to take that best fits my goals. Iām pretty excited about it.
I created a weighted factor model to figure out what projects or learning to take on first. I welcome feedback on it. Thereās also a schedule tab for how Iām planning to spend my time this year and a template if anyone wishes to use this spreadsheet their selves.
I got feedback from my 80K hour advisor to get involved in EA communities more often. Iām also want to learn more publicly be it via forums or by blogging. This somewhat unstructured dumping of my thoughts is a first step towards that.
I love the modelāand Iām happy to give feedback on ideas for EA Forum posts if that would ever be helpful! (Iām the Content Strategist for the Forum).
That would be really useful!
Some of my ideas for forum or blog posts are:
Bi-weekly updates on what Iāve been working on.
Posting stuff Iāve worked on (mostly ML related).
Miscellaneous topics such as productivity and ADD.
Reviews of EA programmes Iāve taken part in or books Iāve read
Dumping my thoughts on a topic
Iām also interested in how you differentiate between content better suited for a blog or better suited for a forum?
Out of that list Iād guess that the fourth and fifth (depending on topics) bullets are most suitable for the Forum.
The basic way Iād differentiate content is that the Forum frontpage should all be content that is related to the project of effective altruism, the community section is about EA as a community (i.e. if you were into AI Safety but not EA, you wouldnāt be interested in the community section), and āpersonal blogā (i.e. not visible on frontpage) is the section for everything that isnāt in those categories. For example posts on āMiscellaneous topics such as productivity and ADDā would probably be moved to personal blog, unless they were strongly related to EA. This doesnāt mean the content isnāt goodālots of EAs read productivity content, but ideally, the Forum should be focused on EA priorities rather than what EAs find interesting.
Feel free to message me with specific ideas that I could help categorise for you! And if in doubt, quick-takes are much more loose and you can post stuff like the bi-weekly updates there to gauge interest.