Thanks for this, Ben. I am quite excited about your ideas and I like your work so far. I think that this is a very worthwhile project, and might be interested in helping in the future with creation or promotion once I get a few things off my plate.
I am very invested in self-help—probably more than most people (and possibly too much!). For instance, I have been tracking my happiness and many other variables daily since mid 2018 (see this post as an example). Over my life, I have tried hundreds of different things (e.g., supplements, technological and lifestyle interventions) for improving my productivity and health. I would therefore be hopeful that I could make some helpful contributions.
Some quick thoughts on building the project (I imagine that a few of these are already in your head):
Building a community and getting regular engagement with the work seems very important. I’d make sure to post about this and the posts in all relevant Facebook groups and LessWrong etc.
Related to that, I think that you should consider connecting and collaborating with key parties who have interdependent goals & similar incentives, e.g.,
The EA coaching and self-help community
Academic researchers interested in publishing in this area. READI might be interested in the future when we have more capacity. We might also be able to help with the review/evidence synthesis processes.
Entrepreneurs/orgs like Spark Wave or Happier Lives Institutes
I like the ‘surveying people to understand what they want’ idea proposed by casebash. Helps prioritise what you work on and also likely increases engagement with audience.
I’d keep revising and updating work on sleep and productivity (maybe treat them as ‘living reviews’ updated biannually).
I won’t commit to do anything more than make this comment now (I am already overinvested in projects!) but I wanted to quickly share ideas and signal my support and interest after reading it. I look forward to reading more posts!
Thank you! Feel free to reach out about getting involved at any point when you have more capacity. These are some great points that I’ve mostly started working on but there’s (always) a lot more to do.
I have many more people I want to reach out to about the project and certainly I’m now working on building a wider community/ collaboration team for moving forward. And absolutely, I want each review to be a living document and for the recommendations to be consistently improved and updated over time. I think I’ll add a note on the stress and sleep articles to reflect that.
I think that you should consider connecting and collaborating with key parties who have interdependent goals & similar incentives
A small addition to your list would be this post about a study on a depression related intervention that I believe originated from within the EA community. Might well be worth contacting the author.
Thanks for this, Ben. I am quite excited about your ideas and I like your work so far. I think that this is a very worthwhile project, and might be interested in helping in the future with creation or promotion once I get a few things off my plate.
I am very invested in self-help—probably more than most people (and possibly too much!). For instance, I have been tracking my happiness and many other variables daily since mid 2018 (see this post as an example). Over my life, I have tried hundreds of different things (e.g., supplements, technological and lifestyle interventions) for improving my productivity and health. I would therefore be hopeful that I could make some helpful contributions.
Some quick thoughts on building the project (I imagine that a few of these are already in your head):
Building a community and getting regular engagement with the work seems very important. I’d make sure to post about this and the posts in all relevant Facebook groups and LessWrong etc.
Related to that, I think that you should consider connecting and collaborating with key parties who have interdependent goals & similar incentives, e.g.,
The EA coaching and self-help community
Academic researchers interested in publishing in this area. READI might be interested in the future when we have more capacity. We might also be able to help with the review/evidence synthesis processes.
Entrepreneurs/orgs like Spark Wave or Happier Lives Institutes
I like the ‘surveying people to understand what they want’ idea proposed by casebash. Helps prioritise what you work on and also likely increases engagement with audience.
I’d keep revising and updating work on sleep and productivity (maybe treat them as ‘living reviews’ updated biannually).
I won’t commit to do anything more than make this comment now (I am already overinvested in projects!) but I wanted to quickly share ideas and signal my support and interest after reading it. I look forward to reading more posts!
Thank you! Feel free to reach out about getting involved at any point when you have more capacity. These are some great points that I’ve mostly started working on but there’s (always) a lot more to do.
I have many more people I want to reach out to about the project and certainly I’m now working on building a wider community/ collaboration team for moving forward. And absolutely, I want each review to be a living document and for the recommendations to be consistently improved and updated over time. I think I’ll add a note on the stress and sleep articles to reflect that.
+1 to the “living reviews” idea! Love that Peter! Such a good goal to have the outputs be “consistently improved and updated over time”.
Thanks Ben, I will!
A small addition to your list would be this post about a study on a depression related intervention that I believe originated from within the EA community. Might well be worth contacting the author.