Thanks Jay! @Quinn, this is what I intended it to mean.
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Announcing a new introduction to effective altruism
Good point, thanks.
Thanks Eddie. We’re planning to make some design tweaks and some edits in the coming weeks including a table of contents. I’ll post in the forum when this is done. To be clear, I wouldn’t recommend sharing widely until then.
I would definitely encourage collecting 1 on 1 feedback by having people new to EA read the content in person and speak their thoughts out loud.
We have done exactly that in the process of writing this essay!
Thanks for the feedback on the image preview—I hadn’t spotted that.
Agree!
Thanks Denis. I am a fan of the variety of this list! :)
Awesome, thanks Eli.
1. Yeah something like this!
2. Great, thanks. I’ve added you to the google form but I think it will work better if other people who comment add their calendly so that people don’t have to go through me.
Thanks for pointing this out—I’ve updated this now.
Apologies to anyone who weren’t able to complete the form.
You should join an EA organization with too many employees
Kind of obvious list, but things that I’ve enjoyed about other offices I’ve worked at:
Interesting/fun people. Good water cooler conversation can provide me a lot of energy.
Ambitious/hard-working people. Lunch time conversations with people working on cool projects and seeing people work in the evenings can be inspiring.
Natural light.
Large kitchen/congregation area, separate to people trying to work for conversation.
Very helpful—thanks a lot Ivy!
Awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Interesting, thanks! I’d be curious to ask about the connections you have made on slack etc. I’ll message you.
[Question] Have you ever made a valuable connection with someone via the Forum?
Relatedly, this uptick is kind of wild to me.
Thanks—I’ll correct that.
Good to see this question Garrison! I’m working on effectivealtruism.org and planning to add a section like this to the website.
This is a decent existing page for this but very tricky to find: https://www.effectivealtruism.org/impact
I think I agree with this. Two things that might make starting a startup a better learning opportunity than your alternative, in spite of it being a worse learning environment:
You are undervalued by the job market (so you can get more opportunities to do cool things by starting your own thing)
You work harder in your startup because you care about it more (so you get more productive hours of learning)
Cool—thanks for engaging in this! Excited to see what you do in future.
That’s really cool to see—thanks for sharing Patrick!