Kat Woods

Karma: 4,459

Co-founder of Nonlinear, Charity Entrepreneurship, Charity Science Health, and Charity Science.

What if you’re working on the wrong cause? Preliminary thoughts on how long to spend exploring vs exploiting.

Kat Woods6 Feb 2017 22:13 UTC

33 points

4 comments21 min readEA link

“EA” doesn’t have a talent gap. Different causes have different gaps.

Kat Woods20 May 2018 22:07 UTC

46 points

16 comments3 min readEA link

How to have cost-effective fun

Kat Woods30 Jun 2018 21:23 UTC

52 points

22 comments7 min readEA link

How to come to better conclusions by playing steelman solitaire

Kat Woods13 Nov 2019 13:00 UTC

35 points

4 comments5 min readEA link

How to increase your odds of starting a career in charity entrepreneurship

Kat Woods3 Dec 2019 17:40 UTC

45 points

2 comments6 min readEA link

Poll—what research questions do you want me to investigate while I’m in Africa?

Kat Woods7 Feb 2020 12:47 UTC

12 points

16 comments3 min readEA link

Introducing The Nonlinear Fund: AI Safety research, incubation, and funding

Kat Woods18 Mar 2021 14:07 UTC

71 points

32 comments5 min readEA link

Listen to more EA content with The Nonlinear Library

Kat Woods19 Oct 2021 12:24 UTC

186 points

94 comments8 min readEA link

Why fun writing can save lives: the case for it being high impact to make EA writing entertaining

Kat Woods11 Nov 2021 22:17 UTC

125 points

68 comments10 min readEA link

Effective Slacktivism: why somebody should do prioritization research on slacktivism

Kat Woods3 Dec 2021 20:32 UTC

36 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

EA needs a hiring agency and Nonlinear will fund you to start one

Kat Woods17 Jan 2022 14:51 UTC

166 points

13 comments9 min readEA link

New: use The Nonlinear Library to listen to the top EA Forum posts of all time

Kat Woods9 Apr 2022 20:29 UTC

43 points

28 comments8 min readEA link

EA Houses: Live or Stay with EAs Around The World

Kat Woods15 Apr 2022 18:51 UTC

222 points

39 comments3 min readEA link

Doing good easier: how to have passive impact

Kat Woods2 May 2022 14:48 UTC

51 points

7 comments5 min readEA link

Four reasons I find AI safety emotionally compelling

Kat Woods28 Jun 2022 14:01 UTC

32 points

5 comments4 min readEA link

Three common mistakes when naming an org or project

Kat Woods23 Jul 2022 13:22 UTC

61 points

8 comments2 min readEA link

Meditation course claims 65% enlightenment rate: my review

Kat Woods1 Aug 2022 11:26 UTC

68 points

18 comments15 min readEA link

The most important lesson I learned after ten years in EA

Kat Woods3 Aug 2022 12:28 UTC

188 points

8 comments6 min readEA link

How and why to turn everything into audio

Kat Woods11 Aug 2022 8:49 UTC

55 points

7 comments5 min readEA link

The Parable of the Boy Who Cried 5% Chance of Wolf

Kat Woods15 Aug 2022 14:22 UTC

76 points

8 comments2 min readEA link