Damin Curtis🔹

Join the next Im­pact Hubs in Sofia (13 Jul–27 Aug), Porto (28 Aug–10 Oct), Chi­ang Mai (11 Oct–11 Dec)

• Damin Curtis🔹 21 May 2026 17:53 UTC

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  in reply to: Tristan Katz’s comment on: Where should the next EA Im­pact Hub be? (Take the poll by 27 May)

  Our current Vietnam Hub will end around mid-july (after the EA Summit Vietnam), so we expect to head to our next location around mid-late July! With the poll closing at the end of May, we should have the next location decided pretty soon after the poll closes, so hopefully early June.

Where should the next EA Im­pact Hub be? (Take the poll by 27 May)

• Damin Curtis🔹 24 Mar 2026 16:11 UTC

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  on: Why more EAs should move to Vietnam

  Since there are already well over a dozen EAs at the hub, maybe the post should be called “Why EVEN more EAs should move to Vietnam!” 😉

  Great points in this post, and the hub is an absolute blast. It’s obviously very person- and situation-dependent, but I think there are a lot of impact-focused folks who would strongly benefit from an affordable coworking/​community hub like this one, but probably don’t even know about it! I hope more people share the existence of this resource, cause it’s a great one but very dependent on word of mouth.

• Damin Curtis🔹 15 Mar 2026 19:11 UTC

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  on: GHD dis­cus­sion here is slowly dying

  This was an extremely interesting post to me, and I hope it gets more comments, partly because I’m interested and partly because of the topic at hand. 😅 I think I probably originally found out about EA through GHD, and this all seems very important. I wonder if a GHD fellowship could help. Also, a group I’m part of called Effective Mental Health runs a Global Mental Health fellowship and runs some other programming in the space, and if you have any thoughts of how we could encourage EA Forum engagement through these, please do reach out or post here. We’d love to help build engagement, it seems very important and I don’t know if anyone is taking it upon themself.

Men­tal Health: Large, Ne­glected, and More Cost-Effec­tive Than We Think?

• Damin Curtis🔹 3 Feb 2026 6:18 UTC

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  on: My Ca­reer Plan: Launch­ing Ele­vate Philan­thropy!

  Great stuff, Joey! Thanks for the update. I can’t wait to see what this new path leads to.

Join our EA Cowork­ing Hub in South­east Asia this Feb-July!

• Damin Curtis🔹 1 Nov 2025 16:41 UTC

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  on: Fram­ing EA: ‘Do­ing Good Bet­ter’ Did Worse

  Super important to test our assumptions, including on branding, especially since what sounds good to those already in the EA community might be totally different to what convinces “outsiders”. Great work and thanks for writing up a post to get the word out!

• Damin Curtis🔹 1 Nov 2025 16:39 UTC

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  on: On What Is Prevented

  This reminds me of a post describing firsthand accounts of what starvation actually feels like, or the process of being swallowed whole that makes up a large portion of wild fish deaths. Such posts are horrific, but very important in understanding why we do what we do. They can be very motivating. Thank you for writing, I am a big fan of your work in general.

Fish Have Sur­pris­ingly Im­pres­sive Men­tal Capabilities

• Damin Curtis🔹 22 Oct 2025 10:19 UTC

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  on: Ret­ro­spec­tive on the first-ever EAGxNige­ria, 2025

  This is so exciting to see! I’ve been facilitating for EA Virtual Programs for years, and have anecdotally seen a significant uptick in participants from the African continent in the last year+. I’m very excited to see the growth of EA values & community in new regions. Thank you for writing this retrospective! (also, 11 valuable new connections per participant seems quite good, I think? So well done on that!)

• Damin Curtis🔹 22 Oct 2025 10:14 UTC

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  in reply to: Robi Rahman🔸’s comment on: You should prob­a­bly track your time (and it just got eas­ier)

  LMK what the outcome is (if it works smoothly on chromebook after you do this stuff)!

The Case for Quan­tify­ing Sen­tience in An­i­mal Welfare

• Damin Curtis🔹 17 Oct 2025 14:51 UTC

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  on: En­ter­tain­ment for EAs

  As a developer of fellowships and courses in EA, this is something I constantly consider as a failure mode—building something that’s interesting, and delights impressive participants, but doesn’t have a strong ToC that actually makes the world lower suffering in expectation. Thanks for making this post, it’s a really important consideration that might be given too little credence much of the time!

• Damin Curtis🔹 16 Oct 2025 9:20 UTC

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  on: In­tro­duc­ing Sen­terra Fun­ders: the new name for Farmed An­i­mal Funders

  Great to see! Does this signal an expanded interest in cause areas like wild animal welfare, assuming cost effectiveness/​ tractability/​etc were comparable?

• Damin Curtis🔹 15 Oct 2025 15:21 UTC

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  on: You should prob­a­bly track your time (and it just got eas­ier)

  This looks super cool! But is it only for linux for now? I also didn’t realize how much the AIM association would pique my interest, reading that is what made me actually open the website! Either way, looks great, thanks for sharing!

• Damin Curtis🔹 15 Oct 2025 15:09 UTC

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  on: To­tal num­ber of neu­rons and welfare of an­i­mal populations

  Thank you so much for the acknowledgement, Vasco! As you know, I’m a huge fan of your work, so it’s great to know our chats have been productive for you. 🤗

• Damin Curtis🔹 7 Oct 2025 15:52 UTC

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  in reply to: Agnes Hasselblad 🔸’s comment on: No one knows what the Op­por­tu­ni­ties board is, and other updates

  I get updates from all these lists emailed to me, and the EA Opportunities Board is one of my favorites because it often has part-time opportunities (eg fellowships, courses, part time work) which I think don’t make it into some of the other lists’ headlines (either because the opportunity is small, or too EA-niche). Just my two cents.

Ap­ply to the Global Men­tal Health Fel­low­ship!