Alex Rahl-Kaplan 🔸

• Alex Rahl-Kaplan 🔸 1 Aug 2024 21:51 UTC

  1 point

  0 ∶ 0

  in reply to: makarait 🔹’s comment on: My Ex­pe­rience as a Full-Time EA Com­mu­nity Builder in NYC

  I appreciate hearing how this might have resonated with you! And good questions...

  I do think being able to explore different opportunities and kinds of work helped me identify relative interests. But I don’t think I have a foolproof plan.

  To simplify my career planning, I imagine it’s like I’m trying to find the overlapping center of the “Ikigai” Venn diagram model; working at EA NYC has helped me improve my understanding of what I’m good at, what I enjoy, what the world needs, and what I can be paid for (in varying capacities).

  Ultimately, however, I have a limited understanding of myself and the world, so I am still trying to answer these questions. Also, all of the above factors are constantly changing, albeit some more than others.

  So while reflecting and gaining experience through EA NYC has been helpful, it’s also helped to (gradually) accept that the world is really complicated and that there may be moving targets.

  Thanks for your questions—this was a valuable reflection exercise for me. Basically, I’m not super confident in my plans, so I’m curious how others think about things too!

• Alex Rahl-Kaplan 🔸 27 Jul 2024 19:59 UTC

  1 point

  0 ∶ 0

  in reply to: SofiaBalderson’s comment on: My Ex­pe­rience as a Full-Time EA Com­mu­nity Builder in NYC

  Thanks so much for sharing, Sofia! It’s interesting to hear how this does (or does not) relate to your experience :)

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

Effec­tive Altru­ism NYC is Hiring an Ex­ec­u­tive Director

On­line Read­ing Dis­cus­sion Group: How Asia Works by Joe Studwell

The EA NYC An­nual Picnic

On­line Read­ing Dis­cus­sion: Good Eco­nomics for Hard Times by Ab­hijit Ban­er­jee and Es­ther Duflo

Com­mu­nity Per­spec­tives: World Day for Cul­tural Diver­sity (Man­hat­tan)

In-Per­son Dis­cus­sion: Reg­u­la­tory Jus­tice Re­forms (Man­hat­tan)

High-Im­pact Op­por­tu­ni­ties in the US Govern­ment ft. Assem­blymem­ber Alex Bores (Man­hat­tan)

On­line Read­ing Dis­cus­sion Group: Suffer­ing-Fo­cused Ethics by Mag­nus Vinding

The Strat­egy and The­ory Be­hind An­i­mal Char­ity Eval­u­a­tion ft. Stien van der Ploeg (Man­hat­tan)

Ori­ent­ing Toward a High-Im­pact Ca­reer: Q&A and Dis­cus­sion ft. Vaidehi Agarwalla

Effec­tive Altru­ism Hik­ing Dis­cus­sion—Spring Edi­tion (Date/​Lo­ca­tion Con­firmed)

Effec­tive Cli­mate Change Risk Re­duc­tion Dis­cus­sion (In-Per­son: Man­hat­tan)

On­line Read­ing Dis­cus­sion Group: The Feel­ing of Value by Sharon He­witt Rawlette

Ca­sual Veg­gie Dim Sum (Man­hat­tan—please reg­ister)

Ap­pli­ca­tions Open: EA Ca­reer Week­end (De­cem­ber 16 & 17, NYC)

EAGxNYC 2023: Retrospective

Cel­e­brat­ing Progress: Re­cent High­lights from the NYC EA Community