Hi Milan, this is a very quick response. The short answer is that we have considered it, but don’t intend to do it in the foreseeable future.
The main reason is that it would cost one of our key managers, but we think it would be lower impact than our current activities for the reasons listed in the main post. I also think our donors would be less keen on it, and it seems hard to make work in practice—how would you tell people which one they should use?
My guess is that it might be better for a new team to work on. One framing might be to to approach the problem from a different angle, such as making a guide to contributing to politics part-time (e.g. neglected bipartisan bills you could call your congressperson about); or putting more emphasis on the GWWC pledge again. It would also be cheaper to start by just publishing a more concrete list of less competitive career options.
A slightly different project that might be worth someone taking on is an organisation focusing on global health or factory farming career advice.
Glad it’s been considered. Have donors expressed that they wouldn’t be excited about funding it? (If EA donors aren’t keen on 80k spinning this out, seems unlikely that they’d be excited about a greenhorn org trying to do it.)
The Breakout List is one extant thing in the broad-advice space. It’s aimed at SV tech folks and isn’t EA branded, but it includes a bunch of EA-aligned orgs. (Or at least it did in a previous iteration; don’t see many EA-aligned orgs on the beta version of the 2019 list.)
Hi Milan, this is a very quick response. The short answer is that we have considered it, but don’t intend to do it in the foreseeable future.
The main reason is that it would cost one of our key managers, but we think it would be lower impact than our current activities for the reasons listed in the main post. I also think our donors would be less keen on it, and it seems hard to make work in practice—how would you tell people which one they should use?
My guess is that it might be better for a new team to work on. One framing might be to to approach the problem from a different angle, such as making a guide to contributing to politics part-time (e.g. neglected bipartisan bills you could call your congressperson about); or putting more emphasis on the GWWC pledge again. It would also be cheaper to start by just publishing a more concrete list of less competitive career options.
A slightly different project that might be worth someone taking on is an organisation focusing on global health or factory farming career advice.
Glad it’s been considered. Have donors expressed that they wouldn’t be excited about funding it? (If EA donors aren’t keen on 80k spinning this out, seems unlikely that they’d be excited about a greenhorn org trying to do it.)
The Breakout List is one extant thing in the broad-advice space. It’s aimed at SV tech folks and isn’t EA branded, but it includes a bunch of EA-aligned orgs. (Or at least it did in a previous iteration; don’t see many EA-aligned orgs on the beta version of the 2019 list.)