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TagLast edit: 13 May 2021 15:04 UTC by Leo

The community experiences tag covers posts about members of the EA community recounting their own or others’ experiences with the EA movement—such as origin stories, lessons learnt or experiences participating in an event, job, internship or community.

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The Span­ish-Speak­ing Effec­tive Altru­ism com­mu­nity is awesome

Jaime Sevilla7 Dec 2022 17:54 UTC
380 points
15 comments3 min readEA link

Log-nor­mal lamentations

Gregory Lewis🔸19 May 2015 21:07 UTC
28 points
11 comments8 min readEA link

My clos­ing talk at EAGxSingapore

Dion12 Sep 2022 11:24 UTC
103 points
11 comments5 min readEA link

Les­sons from Run­ning Stan­ford EA and SERI

kuhanj20 Aug 2021 14:51 UTC
263 points
26 comments23 min readEA link

Some in­tu­itions about fel­low­ship programs

Joel Becker16 Jan 2023 20:26 UTC
134 points
16 comments4 min readEA link

Be­ing a young per­son in EA: my jour­ney into the EA community

ScientificS 🔸️25 May 2024 23:46 UTC
52 points
3 comments15 min readEA link

My mis­takes on the path to impact

Denise_Melchin4 Dec 2020 22:13 UTC
430 points
74 comments11 min readEA link

A Scar Worth Bear­ing: My Im­prob­a­ble Story of Kid­ney Donation

Elizabeth Klugh30 May 2024 8:19 UTC
174 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Messy per­sonal stuff that af­fected my cause pri­ori­ti­za­tion (or: how I started to care about AI safety)

Julia_Wise🔸5 May 2022 17:59 UTC
265 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

My ex­pe­rience at the con­tro­ver­sial Man­i­fest 2024

Maniano17 Jun 2024 18:07 UTC
51 points
246 comments6 min readEA link

What drew me to EA: Reflec­tions on EA as re­lief, growth, and community

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸26 Mar 2021 3:04 UTC
103 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

Les­sons from my time in Effec­tive Altruism

richard_ngo15 Jan 2021 21:54 UTC
287 points
24 comments8 min readEA link

Notes From a Pledger

Justis30 Apr 2022 15:35 UTC
178 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

Day in the Life: Anna Wel­don, Direc­tor of In­ter­nal Operations

Open Philanthropy24 Jun 2024 22:30 UTC
17 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

The most im­por­tant les­son I learned af­ter ten years in EA

Kat Woods3 Aug 2022 12:28 UTC
193 points
8 comments6 min readEA link

Un­flat­ter­ing rea­sons why I’m at­tracted to EA

dotsam3 Jun 2022 14:27 UTC
175 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

EA Meta Fund­ing Survey

Joel Tan🔸8 Mar 2024 7:29 UTC
25 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The ones that walk away

Karthik Tadepalli19 Jan 2023 15:33 UTC
359 points
35 comments4 min readEA link

I burnt out at EAG. Let’s talk about it.

Alastair Fraser-Urquhart23 Apr 2022 12:25 UTC
117 points
33 comments4 min readEA link

‘Where are your rev­olu­tion­ar­ies?’ Mak­ing EA con­ge­nial to the so­cial jus­tice war­rior.

MeredithLeston21 Sep 2022 8:46 UTC
6 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

After one year of ap­ply­ing for EA jobs: It is re­ally, re­ally hard to get hired by an EA organisation

EA applicant26 Feb 2019 5:53 UTC
399 points
184 comments4 min readEA link

We can all help solve fund­ing con­straints. What stops us?

Luke Freeman18 Jun 2023 23:30 UTC
381 points
18 comments12 min readEA link

Does EA bring out the best in me?

Lorenzo Buonanno🔸27 Aug 2023 22:33 UTC
128 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(bestjelly.substack.com)

Story of a ca­reer/​men­tal health failure

zekesherman27 Apr 2023 6:09 UTC
187 points
15 comments10 min readEA link

My per­sonal cruxes for fo­cus­ing on ex­is­ten­tial risks /​ longter­mism /​ any­thing other than just video games

MichaelA🔸13 Apr 2021 5:50 UTC
55 points
28 comments3 min readEA link

Crazy ideas some­times do work

Aryeh Englander4 Sep 2021 3:27 UTC
71 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

My ex­pe­rience at­tend­ing and vol­un­teer­ing at an EAGx for the first time

Nayanika13 Apr 2023 8:30 UTC
54 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

I spent a lot of time and money on one dog. Do I need help?

tobiasleenaert10 Dec 2023 11:26 UTC
94 points
25 comments5 min readEA link

My Mid-Ca­reer Tran­si­tion into Biosecurity

Jeff Kaufman 🔸2 Oct 2023 21:13 UTC
64 points
22 comments2 min readEA link

Please don’t crit­i­cize EAs who “sell out” to OpenAI and Anthropic

Eevee🔹5 Mar 2023 21:17 UTC
−4 points
21 comments2 min readEA link

How I feel about my GWWC Pledge

Michael Townsend🔸29 Nov 2023 4:22 UTC
145 points
7 comments5 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

My lo­cal EA group has an un­friendly and im­per­sonal vibe (via r/​Effec­tiveAltru­ism)

Tyner15 Jul 2022 22:27 UTC
61 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(old.reddit.com)

Anony­mous EA comments

RobBensinger7 Feb 2017 21:42 UTC
42 points
91 comments2 min readEA link

My ex­pe­rience ap­ply­ing to MATS 6.0

mic18 Jul 2024 19:02 UTC
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Small and Vulnerable

sapphire3 May 2021 6:08 UTC
278 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

Pod­cast with EAG Bay Area participants

DanielFilan13 Mar 2023 22:38 UTC
23 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

EAGxBerkeley 2022 Retrospective

ES2 Feb 2023 15:53 UTC
31 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Any­one who likes the idea of EA & meet­ing EAs but doesn’t want to dis­cuss EA con­cepts IRL?

antisocial-throwaway15 Feb 2023 19:09 UTC
35 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Choose your own odyssey: re­sults & in­sights from Tee Bar­nett Coach­ing Train­ing (TBCT)

Tee8 Apr 2024 15:44 UTC
27 points
3 comments89 min readEA link

Soli­dar­ity for those Re­jected from EA Global

Wil Perkins8 Feb 2023 15:14 UTC
90 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

Ways in which I’m not liv­ing up to my EA values

Joris P17 Mar 2024 21:30 UTC
112 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

I No Longer Feel Com­fortable in EA

disgruntled_ea5 Feb 2023 20:45 UTC
2 points
29 comments1 min readEA link

From Lay­off to Co-found­ing in a Breath­tak­ing Two Months

Harry Luk26 Sep 2023 7:35 UTC
44 points
3 comments17 min readEA link

Tyler John­ston on helping farmed an­i­mals, con­scious­ness, and be­ing con­ven­tion­ally good

Amber Dawn10 Mar 2023 15:36 UTC
67 points
1 comment16 min readEA link
(contemplatonist.substack.com)

Com­mu­nity Builders & Mar­keters In EA: What Are Your Bot­tle­necks?

Annabel Luketic3 May 2024 7:09 UTC
14 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

My EA Failure Story

semicycle11 Jul 2022 9:22 UTC
299 points
32 comments4 min readEA link

A Manifesto

sophiathephirst7 Feb 2023 9:17 UTC
77 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

My per­sonal take­aways from EAGxLatAm

Cristina Schmidt Ibáñez10 Jan 2023 2:30 UTC
180 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

Share the burden

Emma Richter🔸11 Mar 2023 0:58 UTC
364 points
51 comments9 min readEA link

A sub­jec­tive ac­count of what it’s like to join an EA-al­igned org with­out pre­vi­ous EA knowledge

lukasj10🔸30 Aug 2022 16:51 UTC
81 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

10 years of Earn­ing to Give

AGB 🔸7 Nov 2023 23:35 UTC
679 points
29 comments9 min readEA link

I am tired.

MeganNelson 🔸12 Jan 2023 22:17 UTC
234 points
42 comments1 min readEA link

On failing to get EA jobs: My ex­pe­rience and recom­men­da­tions to EA orgs

Ávila Carmesí22 Apr 2024 21:19 UTC
126 points
55 comments5 min readEA link

The EA Men­tal Health & Pro­duc­tivity Sur­vey 2023

Emily21 Feb 2023 16:56 UTC
78 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Share your ‘Sum­mer in the Bay’ experience

ES23 Oct 2022 0:38 UTC
14 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Get In The Van

TW12321 Jan 2022 16:49 UTC
227 points
17 comments7 min readEA link

My Ca­reer De­ci­sion-Mak­ing Process

ShayBenMoshe21 Jan 2021 20:17 UTC
102 points
17 comments31 min readEA link

My first EAG: a mix of feelings

Lovkush 🔸11 Jun 2024 17:49 UTC
58 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

A tough ca­reer decision

PabloAMC 🔸9 Apr 2022 0:46 UTC
68 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

A state­ment and an apology

Owen Cotton-Barratt20 Feb 2023 17:35 UTC
269 points
289 comments7 min readEA link

Part 1: EA tech work is in­effi­ciently al­lo­cated & bad for tech­ni­cal ca­reer cap­i­tal

Arepo25 Jul 2021 13:03 UTC
59 points
13 comments14 min readEA link

My bar­gain with the EA machine

Eric Neyman27 Apr 2022 19:14 UTC
291 points
42 comments7 min readEA link

Some Writ­ings on Cause Selection

MichaelDickens8 Sep 2015 21:56 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

A tax­on­omy of EA ori­gin stories

Tom_Ash3 Jan 2015 20:01 UTC
8 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] As an EA, what D&D al­ign­ment do you iden­tify with?

Alex Barnes 21 Nov 2021 17:47 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

What I learnt from talk­ing to over 100 Giv­ing What We Can mem­bers

aliwoodman30 Jul 2015 14:31 UTC
8 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Have You Ever Doubted Whether You’re Good Enough To Pur­sue Your Ca­reer?

lynettebye11 May 2022 10:46 UTC
75 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

How I Raised $5010.32 for AMF and How You Can Too!

Peter Wildeford23 Dec 2014 15:29 UTC
20 points
27 comments13 min readEA link

Why are you here? An ori­gin sto­ries thread.

[deleted]4 Aug 2018 21:03 UTC
37 points
11 comments8 min readEA link

Vol­un­teer­ing for a non-EA char­ity—a write up

jamie_cassidy23 Nov 2017 13:23 UTC
15 points
11 comments12 min readEA link

Why I Give

Michelle_Hutchinson25 Jan 2015 13:51 UTC
22 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

Why I find longter­mism hard, and what keeps me motivated

Michelle_Hutchinson22 Feb 2021 23:01 UTC
216 points
15 comments7 min readEA link

Shar­ing my ex­pe­rience on the EA forum

nonzerosum19 Mar 2019 0:00 UTC
51 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on EA Global London

PabloAMC 🔸12 Dec 2021 0:56 UTC
37 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

EA Ori­gin Story: Changing

Bitton6 Jan 2015 14:16 UTC
5 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Spend­ing Up­date 2022

Jeff Kaufman 🔸19 Jul 2022 14:10 UTC
35 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(www.jefftk.com)

Pipe-dream: Col­lated sto­ries for how and why we got into EA

Tom Gardiner5 Oct 2021 6:44 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

‘I give away half to three-quar­ters of my in­come ev­ery year’ [The Guardian]

Henry Stanley 🔸9 Nov 2019 9:03 UTC
58 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.theguardian.com)

Un­der­in­vest­ment at the top: what I dis­cov­ered coach­ing a dozen EA leaders

Tee1 Apr 2022 12:36 UTC
102 points
19 comments36 min readEA link

Hu­man­ity’s vast fu­ture and its im­pli­ca­tions for cause prioritization

Eevee🔹26 Jul 2022 5:04 UTC
38 points
3 comments5 min readEA link
(sunyshore.substack.com)

EA Blog­ging Car­ni­val: My Cause Selection

MichaelDickens16 Aug 2015 1:07 UTC
13 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

What Makes Outreach to Pro­gres­sives Hard

Cullen 🔸14 Mar 2021 0:32 UTC
301 points
76 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] Has any­one ac­tu­ally talked to con­ser­va­tives* about EA?

david_reinstein5 May 2022 19:05 UTC
58 points
23 comments1 min readEA link

How I missed my pledge and how I’m fix­ing it

Daniel_Dewey10 Oct 2016 0:06 UTC
21 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

A per­sonal his­tory of in­volve­ment with effec­tive altruism

Jonah_Sinick12 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
6 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Ba­hamian Ad­ven­tures: An Epic Tale of En­trepreneur­ship, AI Strat­egy Re­search and Potatoes

Jaime Sevilla9 Aug 2022 8:37 UTC
67 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

’Tis The Sea­son of Change

Jaime Sevilla12 Dec 2021 14:02 UTC
37 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] How have you be­come more (or less) en­gaged with EA in the last year?

Aaron Gertler 🔸8 Sep 2020 18:28 UTC
57 points
60 comments1 min readEA link

I’m not get­ting in that van.

kirchner.jan1 May 2022 15:30 UTC
32 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(universalprior.substack.com)

Dis­cov­er­ing a Pas­sion for Change: Jas­min Kaur on Pan­demic Preven­tion, So­cial Inequal­ity, and Fos­ter­ing In­clu­sivity in EA

Amber Dawn23 Jun 2023 11:20 UTC
15 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(contemplatonist.substack.com)

Plan­ning my birth­day fundraiser for Oc­to­ber 2020

Eevee🔹12 Sep 2020 19:26 UTC
23 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Snap­shot of a ca­reer choice 10 years ago

Julia_Wise🔸23 Sep 2021 19:05 UTC
237 points
12 comments3 min readEA link

Why I Took the Giv­ing What We Can Pledge

Peter Wildeford28 Dec 2016 0:02 UTC
26 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

Why I’m Not Vegan

Jeff Kaufman 🔸9 Apr 2020 13:00 UTC
10 points
62 comments2 min readEA link
(www.jefftk.com)

Un­sur­pris­ing things about the EA move­ment that sur­prised me

Ada-Maaria Hyvärinen30 Mar 2022 17:08 UTC
282 points
22 comments5 min readEA link

Things I Learned at the EA Stu­dent Summit

Akash27 Oct 2020 19:03 UTC
148 points
13 comments6 min readEA link

I’m a 22-year-old woman in­volved in Effec­tive Altru­ism. I’m sad, dis­ap­pointed, and scared.

Maya D2 Dec 2022 4:04 UTC
304 points
172 comments7 min readEA link

Why I am prob­a­bly not a longtermist

Denise_Melchin23 Sep 2021 17:24 UTC
235 points
47 comments8 min readEA link

My ex­pe­rience on a sum­mer re­search programme

Jaime Sevilla22 Sep 2019 9:54 UTC
50 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] What com­mu­nity norm would you most like to see added, re­moved or ac­knolwedged within EA?

Nathan Young2 Nov 2021 11:59 UTC
20 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Eirik Mofoss named “Young leader of the year” in Norway

Jørgen Ljønes🔸16 Nov 2022 13:31 UTC
202 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

In­tern­ships with .im­pact: My Experience

josephkijewski119 Dec 2015 19:05 UTC
4 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

[Question] How much do you (ac­tu­ally) work?

SiebeRozendal20 May 2021 20:04 UTC
54 points
18 comments1 min readEA link

“Big tent” effec­tive al­tru­ism is very im­por­tant (par­tic­u­larly right now)

Luke Freeman20 May 2022 3:39 UTC
342 points
77 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] What things did you do to gain ex­pe­rience re­lated to EA?

Nathan Young7 Aug 2021 18:54 UTC
8 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What does failure look like?

Eevee🔹9 Apr 2021 22:05 UTC
32 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

My ex­pe­rience as a CLR grantee and vis­it­ing re­searcher at CSER

Jaime Sevilla29 Apr 2020 19:03 UTC
99 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Per­verse Ex­cited Failure & Jus­tified Gen­eral Frustration

Josh Jacobson13 Aug 2021 23:42 UTC
40 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Why don’t peo­ple post on the Fo­rum? Some anecdotes

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸3 Oct 2022 15:06 UTC
55 points
21 comments6 min readEA link

Should You Visit an EA Hub?

Peter McIntyre20 Apr 2015 11:15 UTC
17 points
8 comments8 min readEA link

Can I have im­pact if I’m av­er­age?

Fabienne3 Jan 2021 9:20 UTC
213 points
18 comments2 min readEA link

EA for dumb peo­ple?

Olivia Addy11 Jul 2022 10:46 UTC
484 points
160 comments2 min readEA link

Giv­ing money to home­less people

abes9 Jan 2023 6:07 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readEA link

Build­ing Effec­tive Altru­ism in Africa: My Ex­pe­rience Run­ning a Univer­sity Group in Kenya

Tim Sankara12 Jan 2023 10:40 UTC
158 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

On Liv­ing Without Idols

Rockwell13 Jan 2023 23:35 UTC
544 points
24 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Fo­rum + LW re­la­tion­ship: What is the effect?

Rockwell23 Jan 2023 21:35 UTC
56 points
26 comments1 min readEA link

On the First An­niver­sary of my Best Friend’s Death

Rockwell6 Mar 2023 4:59 UTC
220 points
9 comments4 min readEA link
(www.rockwellschwartz.com)

A Be­lated Post-Mortem of My En­trepreneurial Journey

Deena Englander23 Jun 2023 21:52 UTC
32 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

It’s not all that simple

Brnr00113 Mar 2023 4:33 UTC
164 points
20 comments9 min readEA link

Get­ting over my fear that go­ing ve­gan would make me weak and unhealthy

Drew Housman3 Jul 2023 12:57 UTC
108 points
25 comments5 min readEA link

On be­ing am­bi­tious: failing suc­cess­fully & less unnecessarily

Luke Freeman26 May 2022 7:21 UTC
171 points
10 comments25 min readEA link

Juan B. Gar­cía Martínez on tack­ling many causes at once and his jour­ney into EA

Amber Dawn30 Jun 2023 13:48 UTC
92 points
3 comments8 min readEA link
(contemplatonist.substack.com)

[Question] What hap­pens when EAs re­tire?

Eevee🔹5 Jul 2023 2:53 UTC
14 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Post-EAG Mu­sic Party

Jeff Kaufman 🔸18 Nov 2023 3:02 UTC
36 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on my time on the Long-Term Fu­ture Fund

abergal2 Aug 2023 1:32 UTC
179 points
20 comments8 min readEA link

EA is three rad­i­cal ideas I want to protect

Peter Wildeford27 Mar 2023 15:31 UTC
635 points
16 comments4 min readEA link

An­to­nio Mon­tani on team-build­ing and ikigai

Amber Dawn22 Aug 2023 13:18 UTC
10 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(contemplatonist.substack.com)

I’m a Former Is­raeli Officer. AMA

Yovel Rom10 Oct 2023 10:35 UTC
65 points
33 comments1 min readEA link

Daniel Wu on health­care en­trepreneur­ship, digi­tal no­mad­ing, and try­ing out differ­ent ca­reer paths

Amber Dawn12 Apr 2023 12:28 UTC
16 points
0 comments15 min readEA link
(contemplatonist.substack.com)

Life in a Day: The film that opened my heart to effec­tive altruism

Aaron Gertler 🔸27 Apr 2023 22:44 UTC
179 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

Get­ting into an EA-al­igned or­gani­sa­tion mid-career

Patrick Gruban 🔸8 Aug 2023 8:11 UTC
72 points
5 comments7 min readEA link
(www.highimpactprofessionals.org)

Two Years Com­mu­nity Build­ing, Ten Les­sons (Re)Learned

Rockwell10 Aug 2023 2:50 UTC
172 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

I went on a (very) long walk, and it was a great ca­reer decision

Emily Grundy7 Nov 2023 3:57 UTC
95 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

ERA Fel­low­ship Alumni Stories

MvK🔸1 Oct 2023 12:33 UTC
18 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

Why I Spoke to TIME Magaz­ine, and My Ex­pe­rience as a Fe­male AI Re­searcher in Sili­con Valley

Lucretia11 Jun 2023 3:31 UTC
411 points
95 comments40 min readEA link
(medium.com)

EA be­ing a male-dom­i­nated com­mu­nity is start­ing to wear on me. What can I do?

Kirsten11 Jun 2023 15:35 UTC
7 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(ealifestyles.substack.com)

On Back­ground: Effec­tive Altru­ism Still Has Friends (Michael Lewis’s Against the Rules)

Eevee🔹13 Jun 2023 22:04 UTC
25 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.pushkin.fm)

My Dona­tions 2023 - Mar­cus Abramovitch

MarcusAbramovitch11 Feb 2024 19:34 UTC
136 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] How much pres­sure do you feel against ex­ter­nally ex­press­ing views which do not con­form to those of your man­ager or or­gani­sa­tion?

Vasco Grilo🔸10 Feb 2024 9:05 UTC
60 points
16 comments5 min readEA link

My lifelong pledge to give away 10% of my in­come each year (and where I donated in 2023)

JamesÖz13 Feb 2024 1:58 UTC
93 points
3 comments11 min readEA link

I am un­able to get any AI safety re­lated fel­low­ships or in­tern­ships.

Aavishkar11 Mar 2024 5:00 UTC
5 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Why I’m leaving

MRo21 Jun 2024 21:20 UTC
45 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

Fi­nal Call: EA Meta Fund­ing Survey

Joel Tan🔸22 Mar 2024 7:08 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

For­mal Sciences vs. So­cial Sciences: A Per­sonal Reflec­tion About Differ­ent Knowl­edge Structures

erug15 Jan 2024 9:41 UTC
1 point
0 comments3 min readEA link

My Pro­fes­sional Spo­tify Wrapped

Prajna Naidoo8 Jan 2024 15:54 UTC
8 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

My ex­pe­rience found­ing what will hope­fully be a high-im­pact for-profit

PV28 Jun 2024 9:16 UTC
38 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

EA thoughts from Is­rael-Ha­mas war

ezrah6 Dec 2023 8:53 UTC
271 points
64 comments9 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­tions, and the Ap­pendix with the Per­sonal Stuff

Devin Kalish15 Apr 2024 3:29 UTC
9 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Day in the Life: Alex Bowles, Se­nior Pro­gram As­so­ci­ate — Science and Global Health R&D

Open Philanthropy17 Apr 2024 21:20 UTC
32 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

The Highly Sen­si­tive EA

Philippe Rivet29 Apr 2024 20:00 UTC
24 points
7 comments33 min readEA link

How Do You Prac­tice EA?

DavidB14 Jul 2024 4:23 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

My cir­cuitous, undi­rected path to an EA job

Seth Ariel Green6 Jul 2024 12:35 UTC
44 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

Polyamory and dat­ing in the EA community

Another Anonymous Account13 Feb 2023 6:24 UTC
171 points
13 comments9 min readEA link

Im­pos­tor syn­drome: how I cured it with spread­sheets and med­i­ta­tion

Kat Woods10 Feb 2023 15:05 UTC
58 points
13 comments19 min readEA link

Found­ing the Against Malaria Foun­da­tion: Rob Mather’s story

Giving What We Can30 Aug 2022 1:23 UTC
51 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

Peo­ple Will Some­times Just Lie About You

aella18 Feb 2023 2:27 UTC
365 points
82 comments18 min readEA link

Get­ting or­ga­ni­za­tional value from EA con­fer­ences, fea­tur­ing Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship’s experience

Amy Labenz17 Feb 2023 13:32 UTC
55 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

I Am Not An Altruist

clem17 Feb 2023 11:30 UTC
8 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How do you feel? No dis­course allowed

Nathan Young22 Feb 2023 22:51 UTC
23 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Socrates Café: A Differ­ent Ap­proach to Dis­cus­sion

Ryan Adler4 Jun 2022 23:34 UTC
27 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Mak­ing Com­mu­nity Build­ing a more at­trac­tive ca­reer path

Vilhelm Skoglund6 Apr 2022 19:28 UTC
113 points
34 comments15 min readEA link

I’m In­ter­view­ing Kat Woods, EA Pow­er­house. What Should I Ask?

SereneDesiree20 Sep 2022 9:49 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

How to deal with con­flict in EA?

Ariel Pontes17 Nov 2022 8:49 UTC
26 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] FTX Poll Post—What do you think about the FTX crisis, given some time?

Nathan Young8 Mar 2023 10:22 UTC
34 points
46 comments1 min readEA link

Use “care” with care.

ricoh_aficio9 Feb 2017 6:38 UTC
31 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

I was a COVID-19 re­cip­i­ent. Now, I’m an employee

GiveDirectly25 Dec 2021 3:47 UTC
77 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

There and back again: re­flec­tions from leav­ing EA (and re­turn­ing)

LotteG17 Mar 2024 22:59 UTC
43 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

The his­tory of the term ‘effec­tive al­tru­ism’

William_MacAskill11 Mar 2014 2:03 UTC
54 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

Why EA groups should not use “Effec­tive Altru­ism” in their name.

KoenSchoen19 Feb 2021 22:00 UTC
146 points
29 comments12 min readEA link

Bad Omens in Cur­rent Com­mu­nity Building

Theo Hawking12 May 2022 15:41 UTC
581 points
132 comments18 min readEA link

Hiring non-EA Ta­lent: Pros & Cons

Tatiana K. Nesic Skuratova13 May 2024 16:07 UTC
37 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

Learn­ing from non-EAs who seek to do good

Siobhan_M8 Dec 2022 0:22 UTC
261 points
22 comments7 min readEA link

Some prob­lems in op­er­a­tions at EA orgs: in­puts from a dozen ops staff

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸16 Mar 2023 20:32 UTC
118 points
23 comments6 min readEA link

To the Bat Mo­bile!! My Mid-Ca­reer Tran­si­tion into AI Safety

Moneer7 Nov 2024 15:59 UTC
8 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Six Take­aways from EA Global and EA Retreats

Akash16 Dec 2021 21:14 UTC
55 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

[Question] Talk­ing about EA with friend who has an in­tel­lec­tual dis­abil­ity — any ad­vice?

Hayven Frienby28 Dec 2023 17:45 UTC
15 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Con­fes­sions of a Re­cent GWWC Pledger (Box­ing Day Giv­ing?!)

Harry Luk25 Dec 2023 8:34 UTC
59 points
10 comments10 min readEA link
(www.linkedin.com)

The Seeker’s Game – Vignettes from the Bay

Yulia9 Jul 2023 20:31 UTC
155 points
7 comments16 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Even an obli­gate om­nivore can try to eat less meat

Joe Rogero7 Jul 2023 16:00 UTC
42 points
19 comments2 min readEA link

Why I don’t write as much as I used to (Brian To­masik, 2022)

niplav3 Aug 2022 13:15 UTC
81 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(briantomasik.com)

How to Get More Im­por­tant Things Done with the Eisen­hower [Effort] Matrix

Harry Luk6 Oct 2023 1:00 UTC
15 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

My Ex­pe­rience Donat­ing Blood Stem Cells, or: Why You Should Join a Bone Mar­row Registry

Silas Strawn3 Jan 2024 1:07 UTC
81 points
14 comments6 min readEA link

Gen­eral sup­port for “Gen­eral EA”

Arthur Malone🔸26 Jul 2023 21:37 UTC
156 points
7 comments12 min readEA link

Coach­ing match­mak­ing is now open: in­vest in com­mu­nity well­ness by in­vest­ing in yourself

Tee17 Jul 2023 11:17 UTC
39 points
0 comments20 min readEA link

My EA Journey

Eli Kaufman20 Aug 2023 9:37 UTC
57 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

[Question] Can any­one re­as­sure me about EA work cul­ture?

anotherEAonaburner24 Mar 2023 4:56 UTC
28 points
18 comments4 min readEA link

Univer­sity EA Groups Need Fixing

Dave Banerjee 🔸3 Aug 2023 21:06 UTC
371 points
110 comments10 min readEA link

EA on r/​Place: An Art Pro­ject Post-mortem

EricHerboso13 Apr 2022 21:47 UTC
42 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Public Cog­ni­tive Dis­so­nance About Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Is Terrifying

Evan_Gaensbauer22 Aug 2023 0:13 UTC
19 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Numer­i­cal Break­down of 47 1-on-1s as an EAG First-Timer (Go­ing All Out Strat­egy)

Harry Luk6 Nov 2023 17:01 UTC
42 points
10 comments13 min readEA link

What’s coach­ing like? Rapid-fire takes on re­ceiv­ing & pro­vid­ing coach­ing from a train­ing program

Tee27 May 2024 9:33 UTC
12 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

Some of My Cur­rent Im­pres­sions En­ter­ing AI Safety

Phib28 Mar 2023 5:18 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

What’s sur­prised me as an en­try-level gen­er­al­ist at Open Phil & my recom­men­da­tions to early ca­reer professionals

Sam Anschell30 Mar 2023 21:48 UTC
101 points
4 comments12 min readEA link

One EA’s Per­spec­tive on Depression

Dave Cortright 🔸1 Apr 2023 5:18 UTC
19 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Ur­gent—What is the most good I can do with ~$400 mil­lion in Monero?

I_machinegun_Kelly1 Apr 2023 9:35 UTC
38 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Rewrit­ing My Mind­set: My Ex­pe­rience with CBT for Perfectionism

lynettebye6 Apr 2023 15:54 UTC
50 points
5 comments10 min readEA link

What does “Effec­tive” in EA mean to you?

jacquesthibs27 Jul 2022 5:43 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

What I’m doing

Chris Leong19 Jul 2022 11:31 UTC
28 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Be­ing at peace with Doom

Johannes C. Mayer9 Apr 2023 15:01 UTC
15 points
7 comments4 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

What Should be Taught in Work­shops for Com­mu­nity Builders?

Akash15 Nov 2021 18:41 UTC
15 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Start­ing and run­ning your own mini pro­jects: What I’ve learnt run­ning a newslet­ter for a year

SofiaBalderson16 Apr 2023 17:35 UTC
62 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

[Opz­ionale] Perché il lun­goter­minismo è diffi­cile per me e come man­tengo la motivazione

EA Italy17 Jan 2023 18:08 UTC
1 point
0 comments7 min readEA link

[Opz­ionale] Perché prob­a­bil­mente non sono una lungoterminista

EA Italy17 Jan 2023 18:12 UTC
1 point
0 comments8 min readEA link

How do you pri­ori­tize?

lynettebye13 Jul 2022 10:14 UTC
19 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

A se­lec­tion of les­sons from Se­bas­tian Lodemann

ClaireB11 Nov 2024 21:33 UTC
75 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

GWWC Mem­ber Videos

Giving What We Can28 Jun 2022 23:40 UTC
32 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

We need to speak about mid-ca­reers and high-im­pact organizations

ClaireB15 Sep 2023 21:27 UTC
43 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Reflec­tions On Giv­ing 10% Of My In­come To Effec­tive Charities

Samie Dorgham14 Nov 2023 15:42 UTC
28 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Philos­o­phy Can Change the World. Peter Singer Proved It. Three Times.

Dean Guzman Wyrzykowski20 May 2023 0:07 UTC
36 points
3 comments10 min readEA link
(simpleheart.substack.com)

Why I’m Not (Yet) A Full-Time Tech­ni­cal Align­ment Researcher

Nicholas / Heather Kross25 May 2023 1:26 UTC
11 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on my 5-month AI al­ign­ment up­skil­ling grant

Jay Bailey28 Dec 2022 7:23 UTC
113 points
5 comments8 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Craft­ing Our Mis­sion State­ment: Weighted Fac­tor Models, Shal­low Re­search, and Les­sons Learned for Clar­ity and Impact

Harry Luk13 Oct 2023 16:43 UTC
9 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

When I left Google

Jeff Kaufman 🔸28 Feb 2021 21:40 UTC
40 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.jefftk.com)

Recom­mend Me EAs To Write About

Stephen Thomas26 Oct 2022 20:52 UTC
59 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

EA Ori­gin Story Round-Up

Kirsten2 Jun 2023 21:10 UTC
30 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(ealifestyles.substack.com)

What I Got From EAGx Boston

james.lucassen7 Apr 2022 22:20 UTC
20 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(jlucassen.com)

How Josiah be­came an AI safety researcher

Neil Crawford29 Mar 2022 19:47 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive Peer Sup­port Net­work in FTX crisis (Up­date)

Emily14 Nov 2022 12:09 UTC
133 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Guilt at EA

ABishop12 Apr 2024 13:50 UTC
9 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Les­sons Learned Or­ga­niz­ing an EA x Law Group

McGill EA x Law24 Dec 2022 1:52 UTC
8 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Things EA Group Or­ganisers Need To Hear

Kenneth_Diao13 Apr 2024 19:24 UTC
116 points
7 comments11 min readEA link
(kennethdiao.substack.com)

Big EA and Its In­finite Money Printer

Arjun Panickssery29 Apr 2022 17:57 UTC
71 points
13 comments7 min readEA link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

[Up­dated] What’s the the­ory of change of “Come to the bay over the sum­mer!”?

Luise8 Jun 2022 18:22 UTC
41 points
30 comments8 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job on Open Philan­thropy’s Global Aid Policy pro­gram + re­lated ca­reer opportunities

Sam Anschell12 Apr 2024 23:35 UTC
138 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on some ex­pe­riences in EA

NatKiilu16 Jul 2024 15:50 UTC
160 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

EA is bad for men­tal health (and I’m tired of pre­tend­ing it’s not)

VictorW31 Oct 2024 14:58 UTC
12 points
24 comments21 min readEA link

2/​3 Aussie & NZ AI Safety folk of­ten or some­times feel lonely or dis­con­nected (and 16 other bar­ri­ers to im­pact)

yanni kyriacos1 Aug 2024 1:14 UTC
19 points
11 comments8 min readEA link

On ab­sur­dity

OllieBase10 Oct 2022 20:24 UTC
170 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] What would you like to ask a se­nior staff mem­ber who joined a new EA-al­igned org with­out pre­vi­ous EA ex­pe­rience?

lukasj10🔸28 Jul 2022 21:11 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What is the jour­ney to car­ing more about 1) oth­ers and 2) what is re­ally true even if it is in­con­ve­nient?

Sophia16 Jul 2022 11:31 UTC
6 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

The EA com­mu­ni­ties that emerged from the Chicx­u­lub crater

Silvia Fernández14 Nov 2022 19:46 UTC
16 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

Things I didn’t feel that guilty about be­fore get­ting in­volved in effec­tive altruism

Ada-Maaria Hyvärinen28 Dec 2022 14:47 UTC
110 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Case Study of EA Global Re­jec­tion + Crit­i­cisms/​Solutions

Constance Li23 Sep 2022 11:38 UTC
231 points
157 comments24 min readEA link

Lit­tle (& effec­tive) altruism

Parmest Roy2 Jun 2022 19:05 UTC
23 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Diver­sifi­ca­tion is Underrated

Justis17 Nov 2022 21:09 UTC
49 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

How I Came To Longter­mism On My Own & An Out­sider Per­spec­tive On EA Longtermism

Jordan Arel7 Aug 2022 2:42 UTC
34 points
2 comments20 min readEA link

How I failed to form views on AI safety

Ada-Maaria Hyvärinen17 Apr 2022 11:05 UTC
213 points
72 comments40 min readEA link

Thank You For Your Time: Un­der­stand­ing the Ex­pe­riences of Job Seek­ers in Effec­tive Altruism

Julia Michaels 🔸10 Jul 2024 14:37 UTC
94 points
12 comments12 min readEA link

Maybe let the non-EA world train you

ElliotTep14 Jun 2024 14:45 UTC
377 points
30 comments8 min readEA link

Four ques­tions I ask AI safety researchers

Akash17 Jul 2022 17:25 UTC
30 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

“No-one in my org puts money in their pen­sion”

tobyj16 Feb 2024 15:04 UTC
156 points
11 comments9 min readEA link
(seekingtobejolly.substack.com)

Les­sons from the Grass­roots and Reflec­tions on EA

Keerthana Gopalakrishnan12 Jul 2022 5:12 UTC
19 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(keerthanapg.com)

Les­sons learned from talk­ing to >100 aca­demics about AI safety

mariushobbhahn10 Oct 2022 13:16 UTC
138 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

Ve­ga­pho­bia—A Brief Presentation

dlnrbts28320 Dec 2022 21:08 UTC
10 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

What Does Self-Care Look Like For You?

lynettebye26 Jul 2022 10:42 UTC
14 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Some feel­ings, and what’s keep­ing me going

Michelle_Hutchinson25 Nov 2022 12:42 UTC
187 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

Why I Be­came an Effec­tive Altruist

HaseebQ23 Aug 2015 22:26 UTC
19 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Think again: Should EA be a so­cial move­ment?

An A2 Sep 2022 11:45 UTC
12 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Sav­ing the World, and Heal­ing the Sick

Gregory Lewis🔸12 Feb 2015 19:03 UTC
18 points
9 comments20 min readEA link

Seek­ing Guidance: Over­com­ing Re­jec­tion and Find­ing Sup­port in High-Im­pact Research

emmannaemeka19 Jun 2024 4:10 UTC
25 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Joey Savoie from Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship and His Prin­ci­ples—OpenPrin­ci­ples Speaker Session

Ti Guo9 Oct 2022 23:53 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How have shorter AI timelines been af­fect­ing you, and how have you been re­spond­ing to them?

Liav.Koren3 Jan 2023 4:20 UTC
35 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism in the gar­den of ends

tyleralterman31 Aug 2022 20:47 UTC
289 points
45 comments23 min readEA link

Reflec­tion on Bostrom’s com­ments as a woman in EA

lilly13 Jan 2023 10:07 UTC
59 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Ask Me Any­thing about par­ent­ing as an Effec­tive Altruist

Geoffrey Miller26 Sep 2022 23:35 UTC
70 points
56 comments1 min readEA link

Why I care so much about Diver­sity, Equity and In­clu­sion in EA

Benevolent_Rain13 Mar 2024 3:18 UTC
11 points
35 comments9 min readEA link

Speak the truth, even if your voice trembles

RobertM14 Jan 2023 6:10 UTC
92 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

On the Jour­ney Towards Action

jessefrances18 Jul 2022 7:01 UTC
3 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

How my think­ing about do­ing good changed over the years

Quadratic Reciprocity18 Dec 2022 1:48 UTC
53 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

Illus­trated Sum­mary: My mis­takes on the path to impact

Hamish McDoodles19 Sep 2022 5:37 UTC
36 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

My Ex­pe­rience as a Full-Time EA Com­mu­nity Builder in NYC

Alex Rahl-Kaplan 🔸25 Jul 2024 19:46 UTC
73 points
6 comments13 min readEA link

“Sta­tus” can be cor­ro­sive; here’s how I han­dle it

Akash24 Jan 2023 1:25 UTC
22 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[[Sur­vey launch]] Gen­der in EA

GSand25 Jan 2023 5:24 UTC
22 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Les­sons Learned Or­ga­niz­ing an EA x Grad­u­ate Stu­dents’ Group

McGill EA x Law27 Jan 2023 21:41 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

EAG Or­ga­niz­ing Team Really Drop­ping the Ball

Vilfredo's Ghost27 Jan 2023 21:36 UTC
−18 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Who En­couraged Or In­spired You?

lynettebye12 Sep 2022 7:17 UTC
17 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Wits & Wagers: An En­gag­ing Game for Effec­tive Altruists

JohnW1 Feb 2023 9:30 UTC
31 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

EA, 30 + 14 Rapes, and My Not-So-Good Ex­pe­rience with EA.

There_is_a_problem18 Feb 2023 3:39 UTC
3 points
52 comments2 min readEA link

EA’s weird­ness makes it un­usu­ally sus­cep­ti­ble to bad behavior

OutsideView5 Feb 2023 6:01 UTC
208 points
69 comments4 min readEA link

Job Pro­file Recruiter

PV23 Aug 2022 8:16 UTC
21 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Learn­ing by do­ing internships

auroraht26 Mar 2019 22:17 UTC
22 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
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