Thanks for your work, and for sharing your thoughts, that all makes sense to me and I’m glad that you seem to have success in making people feel psychologically safe and encouraged to make their ideas happen! (And thanks for reminding me of the Google study)
I’m not yet sure why socials and rationality skill trainings appear to be everything the Berlin crowd wants.
Well, we also have a very popular TEAMWORK speaker series, and I’m part of one highly regarded cause-specific dinner networking thing! :P So maybe I’d indeed guess that this is partially a founder effect? Regarding some random ideas...
Have you considered things like one-day career workshops? They worked really well in Osnabrück. Also one-day EA intro workshops. Iirc we mostly did those on Saturdays, and both newbies and more longer-term members attended and I think benefited (and had a good time).
Public speaker events worked well, too. We invited professional EAs and advertised the talk at university, and the organizers went out for dinner with the speaker afterwards. A cool way to engage more deeply with some topic in EA.
Thanks! Yep, the “socials is all people want.” is a bit of a hyperbole. In addition to the TEAMWORK talks, we also have the Fake Meat—Real Talk reading/discussion group dinners, and will have a talk at the next monthly social, too.
The one-day career workshops sound great, added to the to-do list.
Thanks for your work, and for sharing your thoughts, that all makes sense to me and I’m glad that you seem to have success in making people feel psychologically safe and encouraged to make their ideas happen! (And thanks for reminding me of the Google study)
Well, we also have a very popular TEAMWORK speaker series, and I’m part of one highly regarded cause-specific dinner networking thing! :P So maybe I’d indeed guess that this is partially a founder effect? Regarding some random ideas...
Have you considered things like one-day career workshops? They worked really well in Osnabrück. Also one-day EA intro workshops. Iirc we mostly did those on Saturdays, and both newbies and more longer-term members attended and I think benefited (and had a good time).
Public speaker events worked well, too. We invited professional EAs and advertised the talk at university, and the organizers went out for dinner with the speaker afterwards. A cool way to engage more deeply with some topic in EA.
Thanks! Yep, the “socials is all people want.” is a bit of a hyperbole. In addition to the TEAMWORK talks, we also have the Fake Meat—Real Talk reading/discussion group dinners, and will have a talk at the next monthly social, too.
The one-day career workshops sound great, added to the to-do list.