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Why You Should Earn to Give in Tulsa, OK, USA
Thanks for your thoughts, rodeo. Anecdotally, VT discontinued their original program because of unpopularity with state residents. It was funded with taxpayer money, therefore locals were essentially defraying the moving costs for out-of-state folks.
I’ve updated the article to reflect the fact that Tulsa Remote is largely privately funded, with some funding from OK for certain individuals (i.e., tech workers).
The other programs I know of are WV and northwest AR. I’m tempted to maybe try one of these programs in the future (if they’re not turned off by the fact I’ve already done Tulsa Remote). Both states are beautiful, but offer less in the way of career development and urban amenities compared to Tulsa.
Thanks for your thoughts, Dr. Wahl. As alluded to in the post, biking is my form of transportation > 80% of the time, and I wish I could single-handedly make the bike commute popular!!
Theoretically, Tulsa is quite bikable because it’s not too hilly or climatically extreme. Traffic is not a big issue, and major roads tend to be wide / multilane.
I do tend to see more bike commuters when I’m downtown. Less in Midtown (where I live) or Kendall-Whittier (another downtown-adjacent neighborhood).
I think the primary barrier is cultural. Tulsa is very tied up with the oil & gas industry, so it’s not in the best interest of the elites to push green forms of transportation or increase the accessibility of public transit. Accordingly, I think a lot of people take pride in having a nice car.
There’s decent bike lane coverage. I don’t think they’re used as often as they should be.
This is awesome, Kevin!! I haven’t gotten to Norman yet, but I hope you enjoyed your time there and that you also like Austin!
Why you should consider becoming a nondirected kidney donor
Thank you for your comment, Alexander!
Made update about risk of kidney failure going up 1 percentage point
I felt pretty much good to work the day I left the hospital 🤷♀️ maybe my job was uniquely unstrenuous and undemanding. What would you estimate as the time allocated to donation?
My donation was nondirected but paired, so I will take all the credit for the counterfactual of making other people’s chains longer lol
Totally agree that an important part of impact is movement building. We will hopefully have a kidney donor meetup at EAG DC where non-donors can come ask questions
Since I was able to be productive right away on personal projects and errands, I didn’t count this time in my estimate.
I used my time off to learn JavaScript well enough to eventually switch careers from Data Scientist to Frontend Developer, so it was a pretty fruitful period for me.
If EA were to conduct a hackathon in conjunction with a future EAG (or EAGx), what are some projects that you would like to see software engineers working on during this event?
Hackathon on Mon, 12/5 to follow EAGxBerkeley
Awesome!! Looking forward to having you there, Ozzie.
This is great — I’ll hit the next one on Nov. 15. Thanks for calling this group to our attention, plex.
quinn, thanks for submitting your ideas! Let us know if you think of others to add.
I would love to see a personal finance tool that is geared towards a public facing (i.e., non-EA) audience that provides 1) useful financial guidance such as lifetime earnings projections and 2) concludes with a call to action to sign up for Try Giving / GWWC pledge.
I think it would be awesome to show people that they can donate a substantial portion of their income and still maintain a desirable standard of living.
Of course, EAs would benefit from this tool too, but my goal for it would be to introduce the idea of GWWC to a general audience.
I love this idea!! It would be amazing if it could sway the ~1000 individuals listed on the site, however I suspect the true power is increasing awareness and engagement in effective giving. Super cool project.
Really cool ideas, Luke! Love to support social giving however possible. Both projects seems quite doable (e.g., spinning something up with Streamlit as a prototype). It’s great that we could get something for the Data Scientists to work on.
This looks so good already, Emma!! Nice work!
Thank you for reposting, David! I’ve reached out to GiveWell — they did have some suggested projects and promised to comment before the Hackathon.
Hi there cdenq,
Thanks so much for this question!! afaik, this is one of the first EA Hackathons of this sort, so we don’t have a list of historical projects.
I wouldn’t worry too much about setting the constraint of what you can accomplish in 5-6 hours (accounting for intro talks, socialization, and lunch here). Ideally, devs will continue to work on their contributions after the Hackathon ends.
If there’s interest, I was thinking we may do a regular (e.g., once a month) coworking session on Gathertown to push this projects forward.
Let me know what other questions you have.
Definitely sounds like a worthy project — thanks for contributing, David
Ivy, I’m free today from 9:30 − 10am, 10:30-11am, 11:30-1pm (all times PT). Unfortunately, I do have a handful of client calls I’ll need to take in the inbetween times. I did a full afternoon of calls yesterday, so I have some ideas about how to do them well.