Coming to this post a bit late, but I completely agree that summaries are underrated. In fact, I started a website this year called To Summarise. My initial focus was not on EA, but just on sharing (unusually quite detailed) summaries of books I’ve read. One of those was for Doing Good Better, and another was for Destined for War by Graham Allison, which I think was recommended on some 80k Hours or other EA website.
Just this week I posted my first podcast summary for an 80k hours interview with Hilary Greaves on longtermism, cluelessness and existence comparativism. It was very dense, so perhaps not the best choice for my first podcast summary, but I plan to do some other ones later—I was thinking of maybe doing the recent 80k interview with Will MacAskill. I am mostly doing this for fun right now (I work mostly full-time at a non-EA job) but would be interested in pursuing this further if others also think it is useful for the community.
Coming to this post a bit late, but I completely agree that summaries are underrated. In fact, I started a website this year called To Summarise. My initial focus was not on EA, but just on sharing (unusually quite detailed) summaries of books I’ve read. One of those was for Doing Good Better, and another was for Destined for War by Graham Allison, which I think was recommended on some 80k Hours or other EA website.
Just this week I posted my first podcast summary for an 80k hours interview with Hilary Greaves on longtermism, cluelessness and existence comparativism. It was very dense, so perhaps not the best choice for my first podcast summary, but I plan to do some other ones later—I was thinking of maybe doing the recent 80k interview with Will MacAskill. I am mostly doing this for fun right now (I work mostly full-time at a non-EA job) but would be interested in pursuing this further if others also think it is useful for the community.