Management & mentoring

TagLast edit: 28 Oct 2022 15:11 UTC by Lizka

Notes on “Managing to Change the World”

Peter Wildeford9 Oct 2021 2:17 UTC

199 points

30 comments26 min readEA link

Deliberate Performance in People Management

Ben_West🔸25 Nov 2017 14:41 UTC

46 points

4 comments7 min readEA link

Ingredients for creating disruptive research teams

stefan.torges16 May 2019 16:23 UTC

159 points

17 comments54 min readEA link

Managing ‘Imposters’

Michelle_Hutchinson29 Jan 2022 15:46 UTC

167 points

9 comments8 min readEA link

Feedback I’ve been giving to junior x-risk researchers

Will Aldred15 Aug 2022 20:46 UTC

146 points

2 comments5 min readEA link

Mentorship, Management, and Mysterious Old Wizards

Raemon24 Feb 2021 21:58 UTC

92 points

5 comments3 min readEA link

Magnify Mentoring: Mentee applications open for underrepresented groups and 2024-25 Impact Report

KMF4 Jul 2025 21:03 UTC

29 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Tee1 Apr 2022 12:36 UTC

103 points

19 comments36 min readEA link

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

Tee8 Apr 2024 15:44 UTC

28 points

3 comments89 min readEA link

Applications Open for the Next Operations Fellowship Cohort

Deena Englander15 Aug 2023 0:21 UTC

14 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Some notes on common challenges building EA orgs

Ben Kuhn3 Dec 2022 3:00 UTC

211 points

26 comments4 min readEA link

Frank Feedback Given To Very Junior Researchers

NunoSempere1 Sep 2021 10:55 UTC

158 points

23 comments5 min readEA link

What we learned from training EA community members in facilitation skills

Alexander Saeri24 Jul 2023 0:11 UTC

51 points

2 comments10 min readEA link

Socratic Persuasion: Giving Opinionated Yet Truth-Seeking Advice

Neel Nanda26 May 2025 17:38 UTC

66 points

3 comments21 min readEA link

(www.neelnanda.io)

Case Study: Volunteer Research and Management at ALLFED

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸25 Apr 2020 7:12 UTC

37 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

Coaching: Reduce Struggle and Develop Talent

SebastianSchmidt1 Oct 2021 15:16 UTC

55 points

14 comments11 min readEA link

Announcing RISE: A Community-Centered Wellbeing & Growth Platform for EAs

Gidi Kadosh5 Jan 2025 14:54 UTC

96 points

2 comments4 min readEA link

My current impressions on career choice for longtermists

Holden Karnofsky4 Jun 2021 17:07 UTC

458 points

37 comments26 min readEA link

AMA: Owen Cotton-Barratt, RSP Director

Owen Cotton-Barratt28 Aug 2020 14:20 UTC

77 points

80 comments1 min readEA link

Animal Advocacy Careers 2021 Plans and 2020 Review

lauren_mee 🔸17 Feb 2021 13:32 UTC

71 points

3 comments5 min readEA link

(www.animaladvocacycareers.org)

Training Bottlenecks in EA (professional skills)

Michelle_Hutchinson17 Jan 2021 19:29 UTC

67 points

24 comments7 min readEA link

Survey of EA org leaders about what skills and experience they most need, their staff/donations trade-offs, problem prioritisation, and more.

80000_Hours9 Oct 2018 23:33 UTC

14 points

33 comments2 min readEA link

Select Challenges with Criticism & Evaluation Around EA

Ozzie Gooen10 Feb 2023 23:36 UTC

111 points

5 comments6 min readEA link

(quri.substack.com)

Is effective altruism growing? An update on the stock of funding vs. people

Benjamin_Todd29 Jul 2021 11:47 UTC

307 points

105 comments21 min readEA link

Improving EAs’ use of non-EA options for research training, credentials, testing fit, etc.

MichaelA🔸11 Sep 2021 13:52 UTC

23 points

2 comments8 min readEA link

Downsides of Small Organizations in EA

Ozzie Gooen24 Jun 2023 20:59 UTC

180 points

43 comments12 min readEA link

Intervention options for improving the EA-aligned research pipeline

MichaelA🔸28 May 2021 14:26 UTC

49 points

27 comments12 min readEA link

Hamming Questions for Project Planning

Will Bradshaw6 Dec 2021 11:27 UTC

48 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

There is now an EA Managers Slack

Ben Kuhn9 Jan 2023 15:48 UTC

40 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

Advice on people management from EA Global

Michelle_Hutchinson17 Apr 2022 15:26 UTC

38 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Hiking: an analogy for sustainable work

Amy Labenz31 May 2022 18:15 UTC

104 points

11 comments2 min readEA link

Notes on Mochary’s “The Great CEO Within” (2019)

MichaelA🔸29 May 2021 18:53 UTC

22 points

9 comments5 min readEA link

Goals we might have when taking actions to improve the EA-aligned research pipeline

MichaelA🔸21 May 2021 11:16 UTC

22 points

3 comments7 min readEA link

Notes on impostor syndrome

Lizka6 Jun 2022 10:56 UTC

94 points

9 comments15 min readEA link

Review of FHI’s Summer Research Fellowship 2020

rosehadshar19 Nov 2020 11:32 UTC

124 points

2 comments21 min readEA link

EA Meta Fund Grants – March 2020

SamDeere9 Apr 2020 8:43 UTC

18 points

0 comments9 min readEA link

(app.effectivealtruism.org)

Giving and receiving feedback

Max_Daniel7 Sep 2020 7:24 UTC

94 points

7 comments8 min readEA link

Magnify mentee applications open!

KMF14 Jun 2023 19:58 UTC

31 points

0 comments1 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

Scaling Your Nonprofit Operations: 5 Expert Tips + Register for the Webinar

Deena Englander29 Jul 2025 20:25 UTC

6 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

Thoughts on being overqualified for EA positions

Ben_West🔸30 Apr 2021 3:19 UTC

121 points

24 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Are there robustly good and disputable leadership practices?

Ben_West🔸19 Mar 2020 1:46 UTC

36 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

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

Coefficient Giving24 Jun 2024 22:30 UTC

17 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Problem analysis of the talent bottleneck in EAA’s

lauren_mee 🔸21 Sep 2019 10:26 UTC

61 points

7 comments6 min readEA link

Resource: readings to learn more about HR/people operations work

Joseph29 Apr 2023 14:05 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Business Coaching/Mentoring For EA Organisations

TheBusinessGrowthAgency9 Nov 2021 11:11 UTC

64 points

11 comments2 min readEA link

EA Meta Fund Grants – July 2020

agdfoster12 Aug 2020 11:58 UTC

53 points

23 comments11 min readEA link

(app.effectivealtruism.org)

What are you getting paid in?

Austin17 Jul 2024 19:23 UTC

98 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

(www.approachwithalacrity.com)

New Effective Thesis services and opportunities to get involved

DavidJanku15 Nov 2021 18:15 UTC

48 points

3 comments5 min readEA link

Your Nonprofit Strategy Roadmap: Expert Tips + Live Training

Deena Englander3 Jun 2025 21:05 UTC

8 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

Insights into mentoring from WANBAM

KMF17 May 2021 17:46 UTC

78 points

11 comments4 min readEA link

How To Raise Others’ Aspirations in 17 Easy Steps

ChanaMessinger6 Jan 2022 0:18 UTC

66 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

Introducing EASE, a managed directory of EA Organization Service Providers

Deena Englander23 Feb 2023 22:43 UTC

116 points

7 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Suggestions for nonprofit budgeting/accounts/legal courses/MOOCs/material

david_reinstein19 Jan 2024 18:34 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Research on developing management and leadership expertise

Jamie_Harris5 Mar 2020 16:57 UTC

45 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

Recursive Middle Manager Hell

Raemon17 Jan 2023 19:02 UTC

74 points

3 comments11 min readEA link

Kathryn Mecrow-Flynn: WANBAM — Our successes, challenges, and opportunities to get involved

EA Global21 Nov 2020 8:12 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

Bottlenecks and Solutions for the X-Risk Ecosystem

FlorentBerthet8 Oct 2018 12:47 UTC

53 points

12 comments8 min readEA link

EA Leaders Forum: Survey on EA priorities (data and analysis)

Aaron Gertler 🔸12 Nov 2019 1:14 UTC

127 points

51 comments16 min readEA link

What’s wrong with the EA-aligned research pipeline?

MichaelA🔸14 May 2021 18:38 UTC

70 points

21 comments7 min readEA link

Comparative advantage does not mean doing the thing you’re best at

Ben_West🔸29 Apr 2022 15:49 UTC

134 points

9 comments2 min readEA link

Long-Term Future Fund: May 2021 grant recommendations

abergal27 May 2021 6:44 UTC

110 points

17 comments57 min readEA link

Many EA orgs say they place a lot of financial value on their previous hire. What does that mean, if anything? And why aren’t they hiring faster?

80000_Hours12 Oct 2018 18:55 UTC

24 points

37 comments5 min readEA link

Reflection on the EA Young Professionals Group

Kenneth_Diao21 Aug 2025 2:10 UTC

12 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

Do your job unreasonably well

MaxDalton27 Jan 2026 16:53 UTC

100 points

5 comments3 min readEA link

Applying to EA orgs? My thoughts as a new recruiter with AIM

Amalie Farestvedt 🔸20 Oct 2025 10:22 UTC

99 points

5 comments7 min readEA link

How WorkStream EA strengthens EA orgs, leaders and impact: our observations, programs and plans

Deena Englander13 Mar 2023 13:29 UTC

25 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

EA is a means to an end

Chidi Odinanwa16 Jun 2025 16:21 UTC

26 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Replaceability v. ‘Contextualized Worthiness’

Tee27 Jul 2022 16:48 UTC

9 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

Building an Impact-focused Community

Kevin Xia 🔸10 Oct 2025 15:44 UTC

94 points

2 comments9 min readEA link

A Belated Post-Mortem of My Entrepreneurial Journey

Deena Englander23 Jun 2023 21:52 UTC

32 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

Funding opportunity for personal/professional development for those working in AI safety (deadline March 29)

atury25 Mar 2024 19:19 UTC

18 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Wanted: Mental Health Program Manager at Rethink Wellbeing

Inga4 Apr 2023 11:49 UTC

42 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

AIS student, you can be an IC

Lydia Nottingham17 Nov 2025 18:57 UTC

10 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

The most common mistakes people make starting EA orgs

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️23 Aug 2025 14:18 UTC

20 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

Who sets my org’s agenda?

Davidmanheim12 Jan 2026 16:25 UTC

38 points

4 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] What’s causing mentorship bottlenecks?

Peter Berggren🔸9 Aug 2023 14:25 UTC

10 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

The supply gap of EA org service providers

Deena Englander25 Mar 2023 23:49 UTC

30 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

Save The Date: EA Connect 2025

David Solar 🔹27 Aug 2025 18:06 UTC

56 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

The anti-fragile culture

lincolnq21 Aug 2025 21:41 UTC

164 points

6 comments10 min readEA link

Best Practices for early-career Research Management

Tilman15 Sep 2023 13:31 UTC

25 points

0 comments10 min readEA link

Harvard-MIT Impact Research Initiative Mentor Search

lduckson21 Dec 2025 4:04 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Announcement: Magnify mentee applications now open!

Belle Koh16 Oct 2025 11:07 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Writing about my job: Executive Director of a small international nonprofit

SofiaBalderson23 Jul 2025 10:52 UTC

42 points

4 comments9 min readEA link

Workstreams Nonprofit’s Finance Insights + Register for the Webinar

Deena Englander29 Aug 2025 1:06 UTC

1 point

0 comments4 min readEA link

How to manage up using these delegation tips

eirine🔸15 Sep 2023 11:06 UTC

41 points

1 comment6 min readEA link

(saidtwice.substack.com)

Let us know how psychology can help increase your impact

Inga21 Oct 2022 10:32 UTC

30 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

The Productivity Fallacy

Deena Englander24 Jul 2023 17:34 UTC

88 points

7 comments3 min readEA link

Inquire! Call for instructors @ Supercycle

Tee11 Feb 2025 10:48 UTC

8 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

So, What Exactly is a Fractional Consultant?

Deena Englander23 Jun 2025 16:03 UTC

11 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

Impactful Budget Tips + Budget Sample from EASE (EA org service providers)

Deena Englander15 Oct 2023 23:27 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

High Impact Leadership Coaching Program – Applications Open

High Impact Leadership Coaching5 Sep 2023 21:34 UTC

31 points

3 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] What is the right ratio between mentorship and direct work for senior EAs?

mariushobbhahn15 Jun 2022 10:56 UTC

60 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

Why I Think OSP matters for Group Organisers | Spring 2026 Applications Open

CEA Groups Team13 Nov 2025 17:41 UTC

42 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

How I went from working in the fashion industry to animal advocacy

Rahela26 Jul 2022 13:52 UTC

37 points

2 comments7 min readEA link

Nonprofits Deserve Better Operations

Deena Englander2 Feb 2026 21:08 UTC

13 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

Running Effective (Virtual) Panel Discussions

Nina Friedrich🔸7 Nov 2025 11:26 UTC

9 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

The Narrative Behind Your Impact

Deena Englander16 Dec 2025 19:30 UTC

8 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

Scale Your Nonprofit’s Impact: 5 Free Webinars + Operations Accelerator

Deena Englander13 May 2025 16:33 UTC

19 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

Global vs. local feedback

MaxDalton13 Oct 2025 10:32 UTC

54 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

(custodienda.substack.com)

Applications Open for the Next Nonprofit Org Accelerator Cohort

Deena Englander18 Jan 2024 20:29 UTC

13 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

5 Proposed Changes to the Funding System to Increase Org Survival and Impact

Deena Englander18 Apr 2023 16:29 UTC

68 points

3 comments3 min readEA link

Maybe develop your strengths

MaxDalton3 Feb 2026 18:33 UTC

34 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(substack.com)

Applications Closing Soon: Nonprofit Operations Accelerator

Deena Englander25 Jun 2025 19:59 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Boost your Mental Resilience to Grow your Impact – Attend the CBT Program of Rethink Wellbeing

Edmo_Gamelin14 Jul 2023 14:22 UTC

106 points

11 comments2 min readEA link

Cross-post: Four (and a half) Frames for Thinking About Ownership

alex lawsen28 Apr 2025 13:56 UTC

18 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(lawsen.substack.com)

Introducing WorkStream EA: Providing support, training, and consulting for EA organizational development

Deena Englander7 Dec 2022 0:01 UTC

38 points

4 comments4 min readEA link

How to increase the impact of the EA community?

Alex (Αλέξανδρος)11 Nov 2024 13:42 UTC

11 points

0 comments3 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

Unweirding Boards: An Introduction

Stephen Robcraft14 Aug 2025 14:31 UTC

62 points

9 comments4 min readEA link

Nonprofit Leadership & Culture: Read the Tips + Register for the Webinar

Deena Englander3 Jul 2025 16:56 UTC

8 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

Some surprising hiring practices I follow (as a hiring manager and grantmaker in EA)

Michelle_Hutchinson30 Oct 2025 12:32 UTC

87 points

13 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] Will Evidence-Based Management Practices Increase Your Impact?

Lorenzo Gallí14 Oct 2022 3:22 UTC

25 points

14 comments1 min readEA link

SPAR Spring ’26 mentor apps open—now accepting biosecurity, AI welfare, and more!

rebecca_baron5 Nov 2025 16:42 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

MATS is hiring!

Ryan Kidd8 Apr 2025 20:45 UTC

14 points

2 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] How should I keep mentoring in light of the FTX scandal?

nongiga14 Nov 2022 18:43 UTC

30 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Tips from EASE: Maintaining a Healthy Work Life Balance

Deena Englander6 Nov 2023 15:00 UTC

3 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Expert Tips to Make Marketing & Fundraising Easier + Register for the Webinar

Deena Englander15 Oct 2025 18:13 UTC

4 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

WANBAM: Successes and challenges from our first two years

KMF16 Sep 2021 22:16 UTC

80 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

Effective Org Planning for a Calm, Growth-Oriented and Impactful 2024

Deena Englander3 Jan 2024 1:06 UTC

16 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

Solving Problems, Not Building Empires: The Value of Prioritizing your Ecosystem

Joey🔸14 Jul 2025 16:04 UTC

46 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(measuredlife.substack.com)

Career Advice for Policy Researchers

Shaan Shaikh26 Oct 2025 17:55 UTC

59 points

2 comments8 min readEA link

Recruitment is extremely important and impactful. Some people should be completely obsessed with it.

abrahamrowe3 Nov 2025 12:42 UTC

152 points

19 comments9 min readEA link

Applications Open: Operations Accelerator for Nonprofits (Deadline June 30)

Deena Englander23 May 2025 16:33 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Estamos expandiendo nuestra red de expert@s en Riesgos Catastróficos Globales

Cristina Schmidt Ibáñez23 May 2022 18:09 UTC

46 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

The Toughest Career Decisions I Made—and the Tools That Helped

SofiaBalderson3 Mar 2025 10:58 UTC

63 points

0 comments11 min readEA link

Book Summary: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt

DavidNash22 Aug 2024 11:13 UTC

28 points

4 comments8 min readEA link

(www.tosummarise.com)

Announcing Supercycle: a personal & professional development community informed by coaching EAs

Tee7 Feb 2025 17:43 UTC

30 points

0 comments8 min readEA link

How to Get an EA-aligned Job: My Experience

SofiaBalderson3 Dec 2021 16:08 UTC

152 points

14 comments17 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

Why We Need to Fund and Mentor High-Risk, High-Reward Science in Resource-Constrained Settings

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi9 Oct 2025 3:01 UTC

8 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

Congrats to our Nonprofit Ops Graduates!

Deena Englander19 Dec 2023 17:21 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Underpromise, overdeliver

eirine🔸11 Dec 2023 12:34 UTC

47 points

5 comments6 min readEA link

(saidtwice.substack.com)

About WorkStream Nonprofit: Building Stronger Nonprofits Through Better Back Office Support

Deena Englander13 Jan 2026 19:02 UTC

6 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

Prepare Now for 2026 Success / Quarterly Workstream Nonprofit Update

Deena Englander7 Oct 2025 15:05 UTC

8 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

Registration Open for 2 Operations Programs

Deena Englander9 Jan 2026 19:03 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Announcement: New Services for Capacity Building in Nonprofits

Deena Englander2 Apr 2025 18:08 UTC

42 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

[Job] Managing Director at the Cooperative AI Foundation ($5000 Referral Bonus)

Lewis Hammond3 Jul 2023 16:02 UTC

31 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Quarterly Workstream Update: The Operations Work Making Nonprofits Stronger

Deena Englander1 Jul 2025 18:33 UTC

8 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

EASE (EA org service providers) Newsletter—Tips from EASE: What Does Operations Really Mean?

Deena Englander1 Sep 2023 19:26 UTC

5 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Free One-to-One Coaching for Procrastination (~60 Spaces Available)

John Salter7 Jun 2023 10:57 UTC

31 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

Does EA recruitment overly focus on skills to the detriment of attitudes, sub-optimising the hiring process for all parties?

William Sceats15 Sep 2025 14:04 UTC

24 points

4 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] [Seeking Advice] 19y/o deciding whether to drop dentistry double major for single CS major to save 4 years and focus on AI risks

jackchang11022 Nov 2025 15:32 UTC

23 points

4 comments5 min readEA link

EA Connect 2025: (C)EA’s largest event ever is in two weeks!

David Solar 🔹21 Nov 2025 14:26 UTC

89 points

2 comments4 min readEA link

Want advice on management/organization-building?

Ben Kuhn15 Nov 2022 3:40 UTC

141 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

User-Friendly Year Summary and Learnings

James Odene [User-Friendly]5 May 2023 13:28 UTC

32 points

1 comment8 min readEA link

You have a background in psychology? Join our initiative.

Inga31 Oct 2022 10:30 UTC

25 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Fundraising & Marketing Webinar Recap: The Takeaways from Our Experts

Deena Englander7 Nov 2025 16:32 UTC

10 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

My experience starting a 501c3

Deena Englander6 Nov 2023 20:33 UTC

15 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Coaching Training Program Launch: build and upskill your practice with Tee Barnett Coaching Training (TBCT)

Tee28 Mar 2023 9:40 UTC

39 points

3 comments13 min readEA link

(www.teebarnett.com)

Review: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy

L Rudolf L21 Dec 2024 17:17 UTC

7 points

1 comment23 min readEA link

(nosetgauge.substack.com)

Strangers calling: the value of warm responses to cold outreach

Sam Anschell4 Nov 2025 18:10 UTC

44 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

One of the Highest-Impact Things You Can Do As A Student? Run an EA Group—Now Accepting Applications

Juan Benzo🔸6 Jun 2025 15:34 UTC

59 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Magnify Mentoring are hiring a Recruitment Program Manager!

KMF2 Feb 2026 17:03 UTC

13 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

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