A bit about me in case someone wants to connect 👋👋
I’m a SWE with 5 yoe working in early-stage startups. I’m quite ambitious about EA and I’m currently applying to Charity Entrepreneurship.
Some things I like: sports, concerts, startups, Twitter, Dwarkesh (huge fan), Derek Guy, walkable and cyclable cities, pedestrian streets, lentil dahl.
Joey has answered this before elsewhere
I haven’t been able to find it. Do you remember where you read it?
cc: @Joey
Also, donating will help with persuading people to be more altruistic in general. In psychology you have this concept of a costly signal, which causes people to take your (related) ideas much more seriously.
Are you confident about this?
Donating an organ might seem quite extreme, possibly making the average person view you as ‘very weird,’ which could have the opposite effect.
The meat-eater problem is under-discussed.
I’ve spent more than 500 hours consuming EA content and I had never encountered the meat-eater problem until today.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/meat-eater-problem
(I had sometimes thought about the problem, but I didn’t even know it had a name)
will be finding these people
Finding them should be easy, no? Just checking the employees of interesting orgs on LinkedIn.
Maybe convincing them will be harder.
I exchanged some messages and had a call with Yonatan some time ago, and I highly recommend it.
He truly changed my mind on the importance of personal fit, which I had been underestimating prior to our conversation.
I often ask myself, “What would Yonatan think about this?”
Do you have an exit strategy? If you don’t, how did you convince VCs?
Superb post! 👏👏👏
Have you considered applying to YC?
There’s a small local group in my city but I didn’t click with any of the attendees (mainly because of different levels of ambition).