These posts are mostly about personally improving oneās own life, but also have an element of āthese are promising ways many people could improve their lives, and this problem could be important to focus onā. This makes it hard to place them conclusively in āfrontpageā vs. āpersonal blogā.
I wound up leaving the sleep post in āfrontpageā and will do the same here, but Iād be happy to hear from anyone who disagrees/ādoesnāt want to see content like this on frontpage.
I appreciate how this straddles both āfrontpageā and āpersonal blogā. Iāll be publishing a case for the value of the project as a cost-effective mental health intervention later this week, which may help better demonstrate this as a āproblem areaā somewhat separate from more general life advice.
Happy to defer to collective opinion though on the best placement of the content.
Out of curiosity, what is the inclusion criteria for frontpage posts? Ignoring the broader global well-being considerations, if this is a āmeta interventionā to increase the well-being/āeffectiveness of EAs, would that be ārelevant to doing good effectivelyā which is the stated description for frontpage posts?
See this post ā outdated in places, but the āpersonal blogā section is still accurate.
Currently meant to be āpersonal blogā:
Posts related to personal health or productivity (unless there is a clear connection to EA work; for example, a post on research productivity)
Thatās why itās hard to categorize the stress post. It could make some reader more productive and impactful, but if thatās the case, so would a post about buying a more comfortable chair, or a post about finding the best ice cream to make yourself happier and more motivated ā thereās a line to be drawn somewhere. (Or we could do away with the system and just ask people to use the Forumās built-in tag features; it wouldnāt surprise me if this eventually happened.)
These posts are mostly about personally improving oneās own life, but also have an element of āthese are promising ways many people could improve their lives, and this problem could be important to focus onā. This makes it hard to place them conclusively in āfrontpageā vs. āpersonal blogā.
I wound up leaving the sleep post in āfrontpageā and will do the same here, but Iād be happy to hear from anyone who disagrees/ādoesnāt want to see content like this on frontpage.
I appreciate how this straddles both āfrontpageā and āpersonal blogā. Iāll be publishing a case for the value of the project as a cost-effective mental health intervention later this week, which may help better demonstrate this as a āproblem areaā somewhat separate from more general life advice.
Happy to defer to collective opinion though on the best placement of the content.
Out of curiosity, what is the inclusion criteria for frontpage posts? Ignoring the broader global well-being considerations, if this is a āmeta interventionā to increase the well-being/āeffectiveness of EAs, would that be ārelevant to doing good effectivelyā which is the stated description for frontpage posts?
See this post ā outdated in places, but the āpersonal blogā section is still accurate.
Currently meant to be āpersonal blogā:
Thatās why itās hard to categorize the stress post. It could make some reader more productive and impactful, but if thatās the case, so would a post about buying a more comfortable chair, or a post about finding the best ice cream to make yourself happier and more motivated ā thereās a line to be drawn somewhere. (Or we could do away with the system and just ask people to use the Forumās built-in tag features; it wouldnāt surprise me if this eventually happened.)