We could definitely use more human-to-human connection in the EA community!
I think some of the posts here assume that people who are new to EA will reach out to local EA groups or ask to be connected to people. I think that most people are kind of shy.
It’s better if we can create a system that pulls people in, rather than waiting for them to reach out. 80,000 Hours used to have this kind of setup—you reached out for career advice, and then we would try to get you on Skype to connect socially and introduce you to other EA’s (even if they didn’t have time to do full coaching). Unfortunately, that funnel doesn’t exist anymore.
However, maybe we could set it up that when people create a new profile/account on some of the EA websites, we can have a volunteer team reach out to them and connect them to people in the same area or field of interest. I call it the EA Welcoming Committee.
This isn’t too different from what I’m intending with the EA Buddy System. It’s not set up to be an EA Welcoming Committee as well, but it could be. I’ll talk to Tom Ash about integrating something like this on the EA Hub.
We could definitely use more human-to-human connection in the EA community!
I think some of the posts here assume that people who are new to EA will reach out to local EA groups or ask to be connected to people. I think that most people are kind of shy.
It’s better if we can create a system that pulls people in, rather than waiting for them to reach out. 80,000 Hours used to have this kind of setup—you reached out for career advice, and then we would try to get you on Skype to connect socially and introduce you to other EA’s (even if they didn’t have time to do full coaching). Unfortunately, that funnel doesn’t exist anymore.
However, maybe we could set it up that when people create a new profile/account on some of the EA websites, we can have a volunteer team reach out to them and connect them to people in the same area or field of interest. I call it the EA Welcoming Committee.
Thoughts?
This isn’t too different from what I’m intending with the EA Buddy System. It’s not set up to be an EA Welcoming Committee as well, but it could be. I’ll talk to Tom Ash about integrating something like this on the EA Hub.