Executive Director of High Impact Medicine.
Physician with 6 years of work experience in medicine, fundraising, start-ups and non-profit organisations, striving to make this world a better place š
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Thank you for writing this update postāI wish you and your team the best!
Thank you so much for this amazing work!
Thank you for your important work!
I just realised a caveat: of course, you will also meet really cool people in non-impact-focused organisations /ā for-profits and can really enjoy working in these teams, which could lead to value drift over time (the people you spend the most time with will influence you).
Thank you for taking the time to write this post! I started working for High Impact Medicine when I already had experience working for a for-profit start-up, three hospitals and a very large non-profit (MSF) and I can say for sure that Iāve learnt a lot and that it has helped me build my character :)
This being said, I agree with the other parts of your previous comment, e.g. on ādirect workā and āworking at EA orgsā; and that āpeople greatly differ in how much of a sacrifice specific things are to them, and how comfortable they are with different levels of sacrifice.ā Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Michelle!
Iām not convinced by the idea of doing something harmful āon purposeā and then compensating for it to be able to continue the harmful behaviour without feeling guilty. Additionally, as people who have been in the EA community for a long time, I think there is a chance that we will be seen as representatives of the movement, and this gives us an additional responsibility because others might take our actions as an example and behave in a similar way (e.g. in this case, āah! itās ok to eat meat if I donate Ā£25-100 a year to ACE).
If I imagined that it was me, and someone was doing something harmful to me during the year and helping me to compensate for the harm so that they wouldnāt feel too bad about harming me again next yearāI would find that disturbing.
Thank you for this thoughtful article!
Happy to hear this!
Dear Inga and Emily, thank you so much for this. It is greatly appreciated.
EDIT: Iāve made a forum post about it.
Some EAs could be destabilized in their mental health. We should install an emergency network also involving people not currently working as therapists but with previous professional experience. Can someone organize this? Iāve already reached out to the EA Mental Health Navigator and posted about it in the EA Mental Health slack channel.
EDIT: Iāve made a forum post about it.
Some EAs could be destabilized in their mental health. We should install an emergency network also involving people not currently working as therapists but with previous professional experience. Can someone organize this? Iāve already reached out to the EA Mental Health Navigator and posted about it in the EA Mental Health slack channel.
Thank you for writing about this. High Impact Medicine has also linked to several articles from our mentoring programme website (https://āāwww.highimpactmedicine.org/āāmentorship-programme) on how to build mentoring relationships and suggestions for mentees and mentors. Iām sharing this in case itās helpful to anyone reading :)