One thing I’d really love to see happen is for live Workathons to spread to other cities outside of SF. To my mind, they represent the best part about EA: people coming together, and getting important shit done.
One soft goal that I have for the next year is to get Workathons going in at least 5 other cities besides SF. In places like NYC, Oxford, and Bern, there are definitely enough critical mass of EAs that this kind of event could be organized on a weekly basis.
I decided to give $10,600, half of my donations this year to the EAO team. Here’s why.
EAs love imagining doomsday scenarios, but they seldom imagine what might happen if EA loses steam or becomes fragmented. To my mind, that might be the biggest risk to accelerating the world’s self-improvement.
Most other EA causes are in some way dependent on the cohesion and health of EA as a movement, and the inculcation of young people into this way of thinking. I want to see what happens if EA grows and matures out of being a social movement, and instead grows to become a staple of liberal culture.
After hearing Tyler and Kerry’s talks at EA Global, where they laid out their plans to try to foster EA by trying to place a movement-builder in every major US city, I was convinced that they have the vision to both grow and nurture the EA movement. Despite an amorphous challenge, they have a top-notch team with very well-placed confidence.
I’m looking forward to see what they get done in 2016 and whether I will donate to them again. :)