C Tilli with a personal reflection on how the experience of EA is similar to religious faith in that it provides a sense of purpose and belonging, but can be difficult to maintain a sense of self-worth
Other
Dorothea—a literary character interested in “effective altruism” in the 1870s
Will the IP rights to submitted stories and any output derived from them be owned by CEA or the people who submit them? Under US and UK law, a transfer of copyright to CEA needs to be in writing, so this would have to be explicitly stated on the form.
Hi — thanks for asking! No, CEA does not intend to take IP rights in these stories, and we would also discuss how these stories would be used with you before publishing them (or doing anything else with them) in any way.
Not sure if you’re looking for dead people, but Tetsu Nakamura is a good story. Has the benefit of not looking so insular. I can’t vouch for the 600,000 figure, that’s on Wikipedia linking to an archive I can’t load. I think they repeat the figure in the documentary, not sure. There are many more sources on him in Japanese.
Just flagging that this sounds pretty intimidating to me, so it might be worth clarifying how confident you are that only this level of support will be provided:
We will reach out to some of the people/organizations whose stories seem like a good fit and help them move forward with sharing their stories more widely. Examples of how we will help include: connecting them with resources like media training, connecting them with journalists, and/or helping to develop a communications strategy.
I’d personally be much more likely to submit a story if I thought that a decent proportion of chosen entrants would, for example, be offered a written interview with an EA-sympathetic writer (which sounds like it might be the case from your tldr?), as opposed to all chosen entrants just being offered support to lead their own self-promotion projects with potentially hostile journalists.
I have a list of stories that I had on a google doc that may contain some relevant ones.
Origin Stories
Britney Budiman writing about her early explorations of effective altruism
deluks917 on why they focus on effective altruism
Vaidehi Agarwalla sharing her outlook on discovering EA
José Oliveira on doing the most good as an artist
Origin Stories − 2018
Origins − 2015
Rachel Elizabeth Marley − 2015
Tom Stocker − 2015
Haseeb Qureshi − 2015
Gregory Lewis − 2015
Michelle Hutchinson − 2015
Peter Hurford − 2015
Nate Soares − 2014
Jonah Sinick −2013
Career Choices
Stijn Bruers − 2019
Ben Kuhn − 2014
David Perry − 2014
Ben West − 2014
Jess Whittlestone on doing a PhD − 2013
Rahela with ‘How I went from working in the fashion industry to animal advocacy’
Yufeng Tao with a career story ‘why I decided to leave corporate for now’
Aline Fernicka on how she went from being a GiveDirectly recipient to one of their field officers
Julia Wise with a snapshot of her career choices ten years ago
Denise Melchin writing about her mistakes on the path to having a more impactful career
Jobs
Lessons from a Year at DFID, Rachel Glennerster − 2019
GiveDirectly Field Officer, Ann Chukulu −2019
Mistakes
Michael Plant—a failed startup − 2018
Lehua—stopping a non profit as it may be negative
A story of how someone missed their biggest career opportunity so far
Donating Stories
2016 donations
Giving Cheerfully—Julia Wise
Zoe Savitsky on giving
Max Ghenis on taking the GWWC Pledge
Where I am donating this year, 2018 -Sam Hilton
Putting effective altruism into effect, 2016 - Sophia Cheng
What I gave in 2018 - Rachel Elizabeth Marley
Profiles in giving—Jenny Jacobs
GWWC Member profile, 2019 - Insa Maennel
GWWC Member profile, 2019 - Jo Duyvestyn
The Life You Can Save Supporter Stories
The privilege of earning to give, 2015 - Jeff Kaufman
Events
Experience hosting an EAGx 2016
Running a giving game at a family Christmas gathering
Alastair Fraser-Urquhart on burning out at EA Global
Motivation and Challenges of EA
Emotional challenges of altruism
Michelle Hutchinson on why she finds longtermism hard and what keeps her motivated
Tessa on why we shouldn’t aim for the minimum of self-care
Alan Taylor with ‘A Duty to Look After Yourself’
Michelle Hutchinson with a collection of motivating stories she has heard whilst working at 80,000 Hours
Jess Whittlestone on why we should be more supportively sceptical
Nicole Ross on being in a cycle of desperation, inadequacy and burn out
C Tilli with a personal reflection on how the experience of EA is similar to religious faith in that it provides a sense of purpose and belonging, but can be difficult to maintain a sense of self-worth
Other
Dorothea—a literary character interested in “effective altruism” in the 1870s
First hand experience of GiveDirectly
An experience of GiveDirectly from a donor
Why donate a kidney to a stranger—Elaine Perlman
This is very very helpful, thank you!
Will the IP rights to submitted stories and any output derived from them be owned by CEA or the people who submit them? Under US and UK law, a transfer of copyright to CEA needs to be in writing, so this would have to be explicitly stated on the form.
Hi — thanks for asking! No, CEA does not intend to take IP rights in these stories, and we would also discuss how these stories would be used with you before publishing them (or doing anything else with them) in any way.
Not sure if you’re looking for dead people, but Tetsu Nakamura is a good story. Has the benefit of not looking so insular. I can’t vouch for the 600,000 figure, that’s on Wikipedia linking to an archive I can’t load. I think they repeat the figure in the documentary, not sure. There are many more sources on him in Japanese.
Nice, I will look into him and read your post—thanks!
Just flagging that this sounds pretty intimidating to me, so it might be worth clarifying how confident you are that only this level of support will be provided:
I’d personally be much more likely to submit a story if I thought that a decent proportion of chosen entrants would, for example, be offered a written interview with an EA-sympathetic writer (which sounds like it might be the case from your tldr?), as opposed to all chosen entrants just being offered support to lead their own self-promotion projects with potentially hostile journalists.
This would be a good fit for a prize competition! and then you can stick it on Superlinear which aggregates EA competitions.