I’ve updated towards earning to give having more of the characteristics of task y than I originally thought, based partly on the discussion on the comments. There are some good volunteering opportunities (for those in London, for example, doing charity analysis for sogive) but I haven’t found anything as scalable yet.
One idea I want to explore more is that of effective activism. The difficulty of assessing outcomes is obvious, but XR, for all it’s flaws, has shown the potential to get huge numbers of people involved.
Regarding earning to give, from reading this it seems that to maintain motivation and interest there is still a lot of structure needed. How do you think of that?
I agree that lots of structure is needed, and I’m very uncertain on the best structure. I do really like John Behar’s post above about the “personal best” approach though.
Thanks edoarad for making me think about this. I agree earning to give is actually a pretty good candidate. That’s influencing me to think about how to make earning to give more like Teach for America.
I liked this post when it came out, but it’s a rare post that I continue to be influenced by over time. Changed my vote from an upvote to a strong upvote.
I’ve updated towards earning to give having more of the characteristics of task y than I originally thought, based partly on the discussion on the comments. There are some good volunteering opportunities (for those in London, for example, doing charity analysis for sogive) but I haven’t found anything as scalable yet.
One idea I want to explore more is that of effective activism. The difficulty of assessing outcomes is obvious, but XR, for all it’s flaws, has shown the potential to get huge numbers of people involved.
To follow on from alexrjl’s point about doing charity analysis for SoGive, most volunteers do this from the in-person events in London (see https://www.meetup.com/Charity-data-analysis-with-SoGive/ )
However it is also possible to do this remotely (and some volunteers have done this from home before)
Sorry, what do you mean by XR?
Regarding earning to give, from reading this it seems that to maintain motivation and interest there is still a lot of structure needed. How do you think of that?
XR = Extinction Rebellion, a UK-based environmental activism group
I agree that lots of structure is needed, and I’m very uncertain on the best structure. I do really like John Behar’s post above about the “personal best” approach though.
Thanks edoarad for making me think about this. I agree earning to give is actually a pretty good candidate. That’s influencing me to think about how to make earning to give more like Teach for America.
I liked this post when it came out, but it’s a rare post that I continue to be influenced by over time. Changed my vote from an upvote to a strong upvote.