Working in environment education in Germany.
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Felix Wolf 🔸
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The Giving What We Can Pledge is a public commitment to donate at least 10% of your lifetime income [...].
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Y5QKkt9PFhqvG7CEn/5-things-you-ve-got-wrong-about-the-giving-what-we-can#Misconception__1__If_you_sign_the_pledge__you_have_to_donate_at_least_10__of_your_income_each_year_You do not need to donate 10 % each year, you can donate 5 % one year and more on the others.
The pledge you took is still significant, you can be proud about taking and promoting it.
Really nice experience. :)
Thanks for the update. From what I have skimmed it looks really polished. I shared it with my local group. :)
Hi Janika,
welcome to the EA Forum.
Can you send me a link to some music you produced? Always interested in listening to new stuff. :)
Maybe the people of Artists of Impact have similar experiences.
What is your exposure of Effective Altruism and what are you interested in atm?
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I also was not able to find it directly on the website.
You can have a look into the Shrimp Welfare Project (SWP), a new EA organization created through the Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program 2021.
Andrés Jimenez Zorilla was also on the how I learned to love shrimp podcast.
Hi Claudia,
welcome to the EA Forum. :)
There are EA ops groups:
EA Operations Slack for those who are currently working at EA orgs already, or their Facebook group Effective Altruism Operations.
At the EAGx Berlin 2023 we had an operations meetup, I can ask if you want to connect with some of the organizer.
Here is also the Effective Altruism Singapore local chapter.
Good luck with your career path.
Hi Jordan,
welcome to the EA Forum. :)
@Ekaterina_Ilin studies stars and exoplanets at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam. Maybe this connection can help you with your research.
This topic was discussed yesterday in the EA Germany Slack, starting with this article and asking if there is a website which lists all companies in Germany who match donations:
Why Workplace Giving Matters for Nonprofits + Companies
Some companies use external service providers for their matching. We can look at their clients to gain more information who matches donations.
Matching Gift Software Vendors: The Comprehensive List
With some examples:
https://benevity.com/client-stories
https://www.joindeed.com/
https://360matchpro.com/partners/
Could be a first step.
Hi Alyssa,
welcome to the EA Forum. :) This post could also have been a Quick Take or a post in this open thread as a starting point.
This serves well as your introduction, and I am glad you wrote it. Your post could already make someone curious if their company maybe too participates in matching donations and gives an incentive to search for opportunities on a small scale level.To get the proposed public list going, it could help to make a separate post going more into detail on which actions to take and a more detailed sketch of the first plan (does not need to be perfect!).
Perhaps someone else has thought about this idea too, and we can brainstorm here a bit.
“The moderation team
The current moderators (as of July 2023) are Lorenzo Buonanno, Victoria Brook, Will Aldred, Francis Burke, JP Addison, and Lizka Vaintrob (we will likely grow the team in the near future). Julia Wise, Ollie Base, Edo Arad, Ben West, and Aaron Gertler are on the moderation team as active advisors. The moderation team uses the email address forum-moderation@effectivealtruism.org. Please feel free to contact us with questions or feedback.”
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/yND9aGJgobm5dEXqF/guide-to-norms-on-the-forum#The_moderation_team
And there is also the online team:
https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/team/
For questions like this I would use the intercom, read here how the team wants to get in contact:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/contact
I don’t know the formula, but I think the reading time looks at the number of words and estimates how long someone would need to read this much text.
“The general adult population read 150 – 250 words per minute, while adults with college education read 200 – 300 words per minute. However, on average, adults read around 250 words per minute.”
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-fast-considered-speed-reading-quick-facts-paul-nowak
This text has 3037 words. 3037 / 250 = 12,15 min.
”In the English language, people speak about 140 words per minute. A fast speaker will get to 170 words per minute, a slow speaker will use around 110 words.”
https://debatrix.com/en/speech-calculator/
3037 / 140 = 21,70 min
The AI finished reading this post at 18:50 with the outro left. So we have 18,83 min.
3037 / 18,83 = 161,29 words per minute
The AI voice speaks slightly faster than the average human.
Does this answer your question?
Thank you for your dedication to the community. I think this post is really important, shows respect to the candidates and what you do has an overall positive impact on the community. I understand that this level of interaction is not possible for every application (e.g. 80k advice), but I am all the more happy to see it in other areas of EA.
Edited:
Speaking in my own opinion, I think this comment breaks Forum norms by being unnecessarily rude. I’ll raise it to the moderator team and discuss it.
Sorry, I wanted to write “This post [...].” Edited the comment.
This post has nine action keys, which could be helpful:
If you’d like to do something about sexual misconduct and don’t know what to do…
[Fixed typo]
Hey Denis,
thank you for sharing your perspective. I see that you appreciate positive feedback in a medium like this forum, and that you are following your preferences – being the change you want to see in the world, and spreading positive feedback.
I really value this behaviour and am glad that you are part of the community.
As for your question, a personal message would suffice the need for “visible only for the author”?
Hi Pablo,
maybe this could be a useful addition to the Anki deck:
Anki with Uncertainty: Turn any flashcard deck into a calibration training tool
Two months later, how did it work out for you?
I gifted the book to a student and got the following feedback:
“Hi Felix! Greetings from the Eifel! I hope you have a wonderful time between the years! I’m already past page 200! Your book is enormously helpful! Thank you for this gift! I’m working through it carefully. Much of it holds enormous potential! [...]” (translated with deepl)
I also gave the book to a colleague who’s changing jobs (~50 years old) as a departing gift because of the tips on how to avoid being a ‘noble loser’ who sacrifices his impact because he cannot compromise.
I listened to the audiobook and liked it for the accurate reminder of the basic principles, but also for the broader perspective. I had never thought about the founder of AMF before. It was really interesting to learn more about the person behind the organisation.
Can recommend.