Congrats for taking the step and thanks for writing it up!
Side note: “I’ve built up a deep understanding of the web platform and advertising ecosystem, and while this domain knowledge isn’t especially altruistically useful”
This sounds potentially very useful for EA initiatives that would benefit from reaching a lot more people, like GWWC, GiveWell or the German platform effektiv-spenden.org. If you have any thoughts on this, please share (no worries if you don’t have time, though!).
I suspect my knowledge isn’t that useful here? It’s about how the infrastructure works at a technical level and how to make changes to the platform, which is a pretty different set of skills from how to run good ad campaigns.
Congrats for taking the step and thanks for writing it up!
Side note: “I’ve built up a deep understanding of the web platform and advertising ecosystem, and while this domain knowledge isn’t especially altruistically useful”
This sounds potentially very useful for EA initiatives that would benefit from reaching a lot more people, like GWWC, GiveWell or the German platform effektiv-spenden.org. If you have any thoughts on this, please share (no worries if you don’t have time, though!).
I suspect my knowledge isn’t that useful here? It’s about how the infrastructure works at a technical level and how to make changes to the platform, which is a pretty different set of skills from how to run good ad campaigns.