TL;DR: I reached out, didn’t hear back yet, thanks for this comment
So the embarrassing truth is that I reached out to them years ago, they didn’t get back to me, and I was left with some vague impostor syndrome about not being important enough for 80000 hours’ time. I don’t think I was really aware of this until your comment just now.
Following your comment, I looked back at the email exchange and it seems to have been a technical problem in their computer systems, not even a person rejecting me. OMG my brain over (or under?) thought this way too much. I hope some of my mentees will see this comment and remember that I’m human too.
So my first lesson is that maybe 80000 hours need technical help ;)
But also: In the last day of EAG, I talked to someone from the 80000 hours team. No concrete advice beyond “the side projects sound good”, “I can think bigger with some of them”, some surprisingly effective words of encouragement, and I didn’t ask about Monday.
I emailed this person as soon as I posted this, I hope they’ll get back to me.
I guess the takeaway here is that I should nudge them some more?
TL;DR: I reached out, didn’t hear back yet, thanks for this comment
So the embarrassing truth is that I reached out to them years ago, they didn’t get back to me, and I was left with some vague impostor syndrome about not being important enough for 80000 hours’ time. I don’t think I was really aware of this until your comment just now.
Following your comment, I looked back at the email exchange and it seems to have been a technical problem in their computer systems, not even a person rejecting me. OMG my brain over (or under?) thought this way too much. I hope some of my mentees will see this comment and remember that I’m human too.
So my first lesson is that maybe 80000 hours need technical help ;)
But also: In the last day of EAG, I talked to someone from the 80000 hours team. No concrete advice beyond “the side projects sound good”, “I can think bigger with some of them”, some surprisingly effective words of encouragement, and I didn’t ask about Monday.
I emailed this person as soon as I posted this, I hope they’ll get back to me.
I guess the takeaway here is that I should nudge them some more?