Thanks for writing this and for your good intentions. Sorry, you haven’t received more feedback!
My quick thought is that you should probably try to work for one of the organisations doing something like your project before you attempt to start a new organisation. There are usually a lot of useful things you can learn from established alternative project, including how and why they operate as they do. Additionally, it is probable that helping something big be a little better is more impactful in expectation than doing something novel and risky which probably won’t succeed or scale (based on the base-rates for new project in EA and elsewhere).
Of course that’s just a quick opinion from a quick read but I hope it is helpful.
Thanks for your advice! I intend to keep on building on this idea in the next few months and have though about reaching out to a few EA orgs that work with students or high-schoolers.
As for working for these EA orgs, that is indeed a potential path in my mind. However, since places within EA orgs are very convoluted, it seems unlikely that I could for one directly after my masters.
I will keep your advice in mind and hope you have a nice day!
Thanks for writing this and for your good intentions. Sorry, you haven’t received more feedback!
My quick thought is that you should probably try to work for one of the organisations doing something like your project before you attempt to start a new organisation. There are usually a lot of useful things you can learn from established alternative project, including how and why they operate as they do. Additionally, it is probable that helping something big be a little better is more impactful in expectation than doing something novel and risky which probably won’t succeed or scale (based on the base-rates for new project in EA and elsewhere).
Of course that’s just a quick opinion from a quick read but I hope it is helpful.
Hi Peter,
Thanks for your advice! I intend to keep on building on this idea in the next few months and have though about reaching out to a few EA orgs that work with students or high-schoolers.
As for working for these EA orgs, that is indeed a potential path in my mind. However, since places within EA orgs are very convoluted, it seems unlikely that I could for one directly after my masters.
I will keep your advice in mind and hope you have a nice day!
Thanks Jonathan