Jonas Søvik 🔹

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I am a coach, self-exploration and wisdom enthusiast, quite extroverted :)

I’m the chair of EA Denmark, run a coaching business, and work (volunteer) at the EA Hotel, helping to restructure and expand the organization/community.

I’m also building courses on getting control of your screen time

See more here: https://www.coachingforhuman.com/screen-time-mastery/

Inspirations:

JOE HUDSON IS AMAZING—best mental health/work, relationships, growth content ever. Nothing compares. He changes the paradigm: Joe Hudson Pill—YouTube

metacrisis (Schmachtenberger, Nate Hagens), integral altruism, Life Itself, Learning Planet, John Vervaeke’s work (modern wisdom), regen thinking, Game B, Liminal Web - & most things related in that field

Jonas Søvik 🔹 8 May 2026 13:08 UTC
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on: How Democratic Is Effective Altruism — Really?
Dude! More people should know that you wrote your thesis—it’s pretty awesome that you went deep to get an overview of the critique. That’s something I would totally point people to.

Have you thought about making a post summarizing your main points?

Jonas Søvik 🔹 5 May 2026 18:00 UTC
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in reply to: Sophie Kim’s comment on: The Anthropic IPO Is Coming. We Aren’t Ready for It.
this is awesome! Thanks for the share, I sent it to a friend who could benefit

Jonas Søvik 🔹 1 May 2026 12:21 UTC
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on: The Anthropic IPO Is Coming. We Aren’t Ready for It.
I wonder if another solution for the grantmaker bottleneck could be a distributed, community-based version. Like Manifund, or how Wikipedia is run by volunteers. There are loads of very capable people in the EA/AIS/rationality space who I’m sure are very capable to make informed decisions and could contribute—but wouldnt do it as a full time thing.

Might there be an option to have a votes-based system of distributing funds to promising projects?

Jonas Søvik 🔹 2 Apr 2026 13:19 UTC
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in reply to: jackchang110’s comment on: Q: What do you do to manage your screen/phone use?
Thanks! Yeah I like replacing input with analog alternatives

Some very valuable tools/apps

Jonas Søvik 🔹9 Mar 2026 22:26 UTC

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[Question] Q: What do you do to manage your screen/phone use?

Jonas Søvik 🔹2 Mar 2026 20:30 UTC

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Jonas Søvik 🔹 8 Jan 2026 12:30 UTC
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on: Should we aim for flourishing over mere survival? The Better Futures series.
1. You might be interested in the term “thrutopia”, which tries to achieve a similar thing and is gaining traction in semi-adjacent circles
2. On flourishing v. surviving:
  I heard this story from Joe Hudson about a tennis player doing practice. She could hit the basket smth like ⁶⁄₁₀ times. One day her coach put a coin instead and told her to hit the coin. She never hit the coin, but she would have hit the basket ⁹⁄₁₀ times.
  Where we aim can matter a lot for the outcomes we get, even without reaching “the goal” (same as it matters what questions you ask).
  Joe’s point is also about what we get from ‘looking through’. He’s an exec coach in Silicon Valley and has done venture capital, and he says something similar about the people that manage to build billion$ companies.
  It’s always about something more, not just making money or being big. (fx being the best, solving a problem, making a name for yourself, etc.)

Jonas Søvik 🔹 15 Jul 2025 22:41 UTC
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on: July ’25 EA Newsletter Poll
It is possible to rationally prioritise between causes without engaging deeply on philosophical issues
It’s really hard. But though intuition gets a bad rap, we at base have a sense of which things suck and how much. It can be inaccurate, but maybe wisdom of the crowds can help us pool together to estimate fx suffering weight to give to cluster headaches or losing a child.
I have no idea how much this breaks down when things get more abstract i.e. longtermism/GCR.

Jonas Søvik 🔹 12 Jul 2025 16:25 UTC
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on: How I failed to donate my kidney
This was awesome. Thanks man. For trying, and for sharing.
I loved the point about “visceral altruism”—it reminds me of Nasim Taleb (antifragile)‘s point about having ‘skin in the game’. That it’s actually very important for our decisions, especially when trying to do the right thing, that we stand to lose out if it fails. Well, Nasim, how about 1-up and putting our organs in the game!

Jonas Søvik 🔹 14 May 2025 19:03 UTC
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on: Build a walkable campus with fellow EAs
I love this! I don’t have capacity right now but I’m very interested and want to stay in the loop—how can I best do that?

I’m running an experiment: free coaching for EA’s. Here’s why (on gift economy)

Jonas Søvik 🔹14 May 2025 14:11 UTC

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Local groups should do more fundraising

Jonas Søvik 🔹14 May 2025 10:36 UTC

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Jonas Søvik 🔹 14 May 2025 10:25 UTC
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on: Running a fundraiser as a University group?
I think it’s a great idea!
I hear other commentors’ recommendations to focus on pledging, but I don’t think they need be counterfactually at odds. I could also see the fundraising lead to people getting more interested in effective giving—and as part of the fundraising you can also highlight both the 10% and trial pledge.
https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/pledge?c=header
https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/get-involved/trial-pledge
Additonally, there’s a post here outlining other low-cost projects people can run for impact:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/eQgKyCQW4u5CCWHXt/idea-curated-database-of-quick-win-tangible-attributable

Callout for low-bar/‘quick win’ projects that local groups can do

Jonas Søvik 🔹14 May 2025 9:12 UTC

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An EA case for brushing public toilets when you encounter them

Jonas Søvik 🔹14 May 2025 8:00 UTC

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Club of Rome call for contributions: No Limits to Hope

Jonas Søvik 🔹10 Apr 2025 3:52 UTC

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Jonas Søvik 🔹 9 Feb 2025 6:57 UTC
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on: What posts would you like someone to write?
More stuff about systems change! (complexity theory, phase shift, etc)
Being metacrisis aware and criticizing the whole “single cause area specialization” because many of the big problems are interweaving

Jonas Søvik 🔹 3 Feb 2025 20:16 UTC
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in reply to: Nithin Ravi🔸’s comment on: Some tools I think you should know if you don’t already
I was not aware—thanks for this!
The utility still outweighs my non-existent privacy concerns but it’s good to know

Some tools I think you should know if you don’t already

Jonas Søvik 🔹2 Feb 2025 23:34 UTC

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Jonas Søvik 🔹 15 Dec 2024 14:00 UTC
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on: Who would you like to see speak at EA Global?
Daniel Schmachtenbeger! He is more EA than most of us. Freakin leagues above most other intellectuals I’ve encountered anywhere
John Vervaeke, talking about solutions to AI through distributed cognition or modern approaches to wisdom (as an extension of rationality)