Hey Sjlver!
Thanks for your comments and experience. That’s my assessment too, I will try. I have also been considering how to create an EA community in the startup. Any pointers?
Thanks
At Google, most employees who came in touch with EA-related ideas did so thanks to Google’s donation matching program. Essentially, Google has a system where people can report their donations, and then the company will donate the same amount to the same charity (there’s an annual cap, but it’s fairly high, like US$ 10k or so).
There is a yearly fundraising event called “giving week” to increase awareness of the donation matching. On multiple occasions during this week, we had people from the EA community come and give talks.
When considering starting an EA community, I might look for similar ideas to the ones mentioned above, in order to try making this part of company culture. There are selfish reasons for companies to do this sort of things (employee satisfaction, tax “optimization”). Also, there might be an existing culture of “tech talks” that you can leverage to bring up EA topics.
Oh… and for some companies, all you need to do to start a community is get some EA-related stickers that people can put on their laptops ;-)
(It’s a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I’m only half joking… most companies have things like this. At Google, laptop stickers were trendy, fashionable, and in high demand. I’m sure that after being at Xanadu for a while, you’ll find an idea that works well for this particular company)
Hey Sjlver! Thanks for your comments and experience. That’s my assessment too, I will try. I have also been considering how to create an EA community in the startup. Any pointers? Thanks
At Google, most employees who came in touch with EA-related ideas did so thanks to Google’s donation matching program. Essentially, Google has a system where people can report their donations, and then the company will donate the same amount to the same charity (there’s an annual cap, but it’s fairly high, like US$ 10k or so).
There is a yearly fundraising event called “giving week” to increase awareness of the donation matching. On multiple occasions during this week, we had people from the EA community come and give talks.
When considering starting an EA community, I might look for similar ideas to the ones mentioned above, in order to try making this part of company culture. There are selfish reasons for companies to do this sort of things (employee satisfaction, tax “optimization”). Also, there might be an existing culture of “tech talks” that you can leverage to bring up EA topics.
Thanks!
Oh… and for some companies, all you need to do to start a community is get some EA-related stickers that people can put on their laptops ;-)
(It’s a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I’m only half joking… most companies have things like this. At Google, laptop stickers were trendy, fashionable, and in high demand. I’m sure that after being at Xanadu for a while, you’ll find an idea that works well for this particular company)
Thanks!