Glad you had a great experience though wish it could have been even better! I think it’s pretty counterintuitive that most of the value from many conferences comes from 1:1s so it totally makes sense that it took you by surprise.
I wouldn’t expect people to have found these in advance but, for next time, there’s a bunch of good “how to do EAG(X)” and “how to do 1:1s” posts on the forum. Some non comprehensive examples:
I know the conference organizers have a ton of considerations when deciding how much content to blast at attendees (and it’s easy for things to sink to the bottom of everybody’s inbox) but some of these might be cool for them to send to future attendees.
I think going to conferences where you don’t know a bunch of people already is pretty scary so I’m impressed that you went for it anyway!
Glad you had a great experience though wish it could have been even better! I think it’s pretty counterintuitive that most of the value from many conferences comes from 1:1s so it totally makes sense that it took you by surprise.
I wouldn’t expect people to have found these in advance but, for next time, there’s a bunch of good “how to do EAG(X)” and “how to do 1:1s” posts on the forum. Some non comprehensive examples:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/sxKJckCiZQyux4kCx/ea-global-tips-networking-with-others-in-mind
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/pKbTjdopzSEApSQfc/doing-1-on-1s-better-eag-tips-part-ii
Generally the EAG and EA conferences tags seem good for finding this stuff.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/tag/effective-altruism-conferences
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/tag/effective-altruism-global
I know the conference organizers have a ton of considerations when deciding how much content to blast at attendees (and it’s easy for things to sink to the bottom of everybody’s inbox) but some of these might be cool for them to send to future attendees.
I think going to conferences where you don’t know a bunch of people already is pretty scary so I’m impressed that you went for it anyway!
Hi Howie, thanks so much for sending those resources over! I’ll definitely be reading those before my next conference.