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Your idea about short-form educational content seems to fit squarely into the “EA community building” field, and I think that’s really important for the EA community right now after FTX and the recent OpenAI drama.
As a relatively non-technical person, I’ve often found EA educational material quite opaque and difficult to grapple with (or just too lengthy for me; I can’t possibly find the time to listen to multi-hour podcasts). It sounds like you want to create exactly the sort of material that might be easier for me and other non-technical folks to engage with.
I think you should go for it! If the project succeeds, great. If it doesn’t succeed, you’ll learn something that will make a better subsequent project, and you’ll have nudged yourself to become a more agentic person. My only piece of advice is to make sure you have a theory of change before embarking on the project — who will your educational content reach? How will they react to it? Why will this be good?