Hi! My name’s Adin (pronounced “ahdeen”, yes it should be spelled differently haha). I first came across EA stuff maybe like 7 years ago through GiveWell. More recently I’ve been perusing 80k site & pod to try to figure out my career. Heard an interview with Lucia from LEEP and starting checking out some of what Charity Entrepreneurship (or I guess AIM now) gets up to. Overall I find their work, and much of the work done by the EA community, pretty impressive.
I recently came off a relatively brief stint working at a homeless services organization where I live in Denver, CO with a lot of questions about “doing good”. On the one hand I felt that the hands on case management I was doing with clients wasn’t accomplishing much, partly due to the rigourlessness and ineffectiveness of the organization I worked for. But shifting focus overseas because that’s where it appears to be cheapest to achieve measurable outcomes doesn’t seem quite right to me either.
I’m not yet convinced that my inclination to give some level of priority to people living in my physical community is a psychological bias to be overcome with logical thought. In the terminology of the Giving Multiplier folks, but not fully accepting their premise or approach, I don’t think the “head” and “heart” are necessarily so at odds as they might appear. So I’m trying to read and listen to more on this topic and engage in conversation with people who might be interested in the same set of questions, which is why I’m excited to be here!
It’s really cool that you seem to be taking the project of doing good so seriously. I hope the Forum is a useful place to explore the questions you’re interested in.
Let me know if there is anything you need to know or feedback about the Forum (here or in dm).
Hi! My name’s Adin (pronounced “ahdeen”, yes it should be spelled differently haha). I first came across EA stuff maybe like 7 years ago through GiveWell. More recently I’ve been perusing 80k site & pod to try to figure out my career. Heard an interview with Lucia from LEEP and starting checking out some of what Charity Entrepreneurship (or I guess AIM now) gets up to. Overall I find their work, and much of the work done by the EA community, pretty impressive.
I recently came off a relatively brief stint working at a homeless services organization where I live in Denver, CO with a lot of questions about “doing good”. On the one hand I felt that the hands on case management I was doing with clients wasn’t accomplishing much, partly due to the rigourlessness and ineffectiveness of the organization I worked for. But shifting focus overseas because that’s where it appears to be cheapest to achieve measurable outcomes doesn’t seem quite right to me either.
I’m not yet convinced that my inclination to give some level of priority to people living in my physical community is a psychological bias to be overcome with logical thought. In the terminology of the Giving Multiplier folks, but not fully accepting their premise or approach, I don’t think the “head” and “heart” are necessarily so at odds as they might appear. So I’m trying to read and listen to more on this topic and engage in conversation with people who might be interested in the same set of questions, which is why I’m excited to be here!
Hey Adin, thanks for joining!
It’s really cool that you seem to be taking the project of doing good so seriously. I hope the Forum is a useful place to explore the questions you’re interested in.
Let me know if there is anything you need to know or feedback about the Forum (here or in dm).