Kaleem Ahmid. Entrepreneur in Residence at EV.
Previously a Community Builder at Northeastern and in Boston. Previously a Visiting Scholar at JHU Center for Health Security. EAGxBoston 2022 and EAGxNYC 2023 organiser.
Kaleem
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Hi Fin, this is a cool and seemingly worthwhile project—I’m happy to contribute by recording some of the text (in my slightly? South African accent) :p
EAGx Boston T-Shirt Design Competition—closes 6th March
The point about bringing non-EA entrepreneurs into EA is a good one (I think—but I think that I think that because I have also been thinking about it recently!). One idea I’ve had is whether or not it’d be worth hosting some type of conference where we bring together HEA university students with enterprising and ambitious (not required) business school students to exchange ideas and brainstorm, with the aim of allowing co-founder pairs to enter some type of competition with seed-funding as the prize
Hi—thanks for these good questions :)
Ideally the design will have no more than two colors
We already have a conference logo, so you could incorporate the EA logo into your design, but it is not necessary
We don’t have a specific requirement for the use of text, or what text to use.
Ideally the design will be for the large front portion of a T shirt
You can choose what single, solid-color T shirt you’d recommend to use, but we won’t guarantee the use of that color because of constraints which the vendor might have
We don’t want the conference logo on the T-shirt—people think it will make attendees less likely to wear it frequently
EAGxBoston: Updates and Info from the Organizing Team
I was about to say the same thing—the deadline is probably too soon. Also, by mid-April, we’d have had EAGxOxford, EAGxBoston, EAG London, and half a dozen community-builder retreats, all of which will likely inspire great pieces (but also maybe allow for time to write them—especially at the retreats)
I’m not sure if this is just happening for me, but the form seems to have some glitchy parameters that make it impossible to submit, such as a ‘character count which needs to be bellow 0’ for question 12, and question 7 doesn’t tell you why you can’t submit the answer even when it is below 300 words.
It’s fixed—thanks !
Only talks in 205BC will be recorded
Done, Thanks Jeremy !
Thanks for this post :) Suggestion: maybe move the TLDR section to the top of the post? Otherwise people who it is intended for probably won’t even see it
We sent them to CEA—I think they’ll go onto their YouTube page
This is a great idea Jeremy—thanks for posting it. I’m also happy to talk to people about what it’s like attending an EAG(x). PM me and I’ll send my calendly :)
Background: I’m originally from South Africa and spent 5 years as a student in Boston. I attended my first in-person conference in October 2021, and then was part of the organising team for EAGxBoston in April 2022. I’m interested in community building and biosecurity work.
Wouldn’t this category be part of the fourth one? You’re just pointing to more concrete examples of “practices in the EA community”? Or am I missing something (pretty likely).
It’s a pretty easy process—You could also just get someone else to do it for you
I’m going to be reading Bill Gates’ “How to prevent the next pandemic” in the next 5 days, would anyone else be interested in reading it and working on a “shared thoughts”/collective review/takeaways type post for the forum? Book reviews are cool, but I was thinking about doing something slightly different where a bunch of people write something much shorter and give a bullet pointed list of pros, cons, and main takeaways from the book. Thoughts?
Update: I read the book and didn’t think it had much information that was particularly insightful or novel. As a public health professional, it was very boring, but I’d be happy for as many people to read it and take it seriously as possible because the information is sensible and likely to be unharmful and helpful in the case of future pandemics. As an EA working on GCBRs, it was very underwhelming and failed to mention many of the things that biosecurity people in the EA space seem to think are vitally important, like next-gen PPE, the NAO, the BWC etc.
Does anyone have any leads on cost-effectiveness in the climate change space? I think the last SoGive article on this is Sanjay’s from 2020 - is there anything newer/better than that post?