I like the idea, Gleb. It’s inspiring to read what others are achieving!
These are some of the things I’ve done over the past ~6 months:
1) I took the GWWC pledge, which I consider to be one of the most important decisions I’ve ever made. It’s had a more profound impact on my life than I initially expected, so it’s been a great experience.
2) I co-founded the EA-Munich group back in September 2015, and the group is growing fast. Apart from regular meetups, we organized an event in January in collaboration with the Stiftung für Effektiven Altruismus, which attracted over 100 people. Our guest was Lucius Caviola from Oxford, who held a talk on the psychology of EA. We are also founding our own association (a German Verein) to have a more solid legal basis and better credentials to be able approach organizations and companies in Munich to advocate EA. Finally, we are about to get an official EA-student group accredited at the Technical University of Munich, which will allow us to reach many students.
3) I went veg. (Yes, this is a big achievement for me :) )
4) I decided to volunteer at Intentional Insights, giving feedback and proofreading articles every now and then, mostly on EA-related topics.
In short, it’s been a time of radical personal changes—EA style :)
Sounds like some very positive radical change, congrats! Glad to hear that the GWWC pledge is working out so well for you, and very exciting to hear about the EA Munich group’s progress. Cool to hear about you going veg, and thanks for contributing to Intentional Insights’ work :-)
I like the idea, Gleb. It’s inspiring to read what others are achieving!
These are some of the things I’ve done over the past ~6 months:
1) I took the GWWC pledge, which I consider to be one of the most important decisions I’ve ever made. It’s had a more profound impact on my life than I initially expected, so it’s been a great experience.
2) I co-founded the EA-Munich group back in September 2015, and the group is growing fast. Apart from regular meetups, we organized an event in January in collaboration with the Stiftung für Effektiven Altruismus, which attracted over 100 people. Our guest was Lucius Caviola from Oxford, who held a talk on the psychology of EA. We are also founding our own association (a German Verein) to have a more solid legal basis and better credentials to be able approach organizations and companies in Munich to advocate EA. Finally, we are about to get an official EA-student group accredited at the Technical University of Munich, which will allow us to reach many students.
3) I went veg. (Yes, this is a big achievement for me :) )
4) I decided to volunteer at Intentional Insights, giving feedback and proofreading articles every now and then, mostly on EA-related topics.
In short, it’s been a time of radical personal changes—EA style :)
Sounds like some very positive radical change, congrats! Glad to hear that the GWWC pledge is working out so well for you, and very exciting to hear about the EA Munich group’s progress. Cool to hear about you going veg, and thanks for contributing to Intentional Insights’ work :-)