Hi Catherine! Great writeup, I really liked it :) I especially liked “Good call 4: I reliably did stuff that seemed to need doing, even if they were boring, low status, or unpaid. I tried to be of service to others.” It reminds me of Miranda’s essay The Importance of Sidekicks, which resonated with me more than the usual hero narratives I hear bandied about.
Also:
I was very influenced by some earlier EAs like Julia and Jeff—who gave up significant resources to make a big difference with not a lot of encouragement from the world.
Julia and Jeff’s story was personally inspirational to me as well. I kept going back to the anecdotes in Strangers Drowning by Larissa MacFarquhar in the chapter profiling Julia, Jeff and the early EA movement; they were powerfully moving.
Hi Catherine! Great writeup, I really liked it :) I especially liked “Good call 4: I reliably did stuff that seemed to need doing, even if they were boring, low status, or unpaid. I tried to be of service to others.” It reminds me of Miranda’s essay The Importance of Sidekicks, which resonated with me more than the usual hero narratives I hear bandied about.
Also:
Julia and Jeff’s story was personally inspirational to me as well. I kept going back to the anecdotes in Strangers Drowning by Larissa MacFarquhar in the chapter profiling Julia, Jeff and the early EA movement; they were powerfully moving.