Spencer R. Ericson 🔸

• Spencer R. Ericson 🔸Jun 13, 2023, 9:05 PM

  5 points

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  in reply to: quinn’s comment on: Am­ber Dawn’s Shortform

  I see how both are related to honestly saying things unprompted.

  One difference is whether the honesty is necessary for someone to make an important decision.

  If we want to increase our transparency as a community and reduce the risk of bad actors gaining undue influence, someone needs to say “I know no one asked, but I had a concerning experience with this person.” And then some people will hopefully say, “Thanks, I was going to make a deal with this person or rely on them for something, and now I won’t.”

  But if someone just came up to me and said “I like how your body looks” or something, I would probably say, “I wasn’t planning on making any decisions relating to you and my body, and I continue to not plan on doing that. Why are you telling me? Who is this supposed to benefit?”

• Spencer R. Ericson 🔸Jun 8, 2023, 8:16 PM

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  in reply to: Amber Dawn’s comment on: A Brief & Re­cent His­tory of Fish: What I learned in a weekend

  Thank you, I’m so glad it helped!

• Spencer R. Ericson 🔸May 25, 2023, 8:10 PM

  2 points

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  in reply to: Benevolent_Rain’s comment on: If you find EA con­fer­ences emo­tion­ally difficult, you’re not alone

  the difference in expectations vs reality regarding micro-aggressions and sexual advances is uniquely large in EA.

  Weak agree vote! I definitely expect more ethical behaviour irl from EAs than I expect from other people. But I also get the good behaviour that I expect from almost every EA that I’ve interacted with in Vancouver and briefly in SF.

  It’s more distressing for me to hear reports of micro-aggressions and inappropriate sexual behaviour from people in EA than to hear similar reports in my other communities, because it’s more unpleasantly surprising and comes apart more from my expectations.

• Spencer R. Ericson 🔸May 25, 2023, 2:03 AM

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  in reply to: Benevolent_Rain’s comment on: If you find EA con­fer­ences emo­tion­ally difficult, you’re not alone

  Do you mean to say they’re “unique to” EA, or that they “feel uniquely bad in” EA?

• Spencer R. Ericson 🔸May 24, 2023, 9:55 PM

  5 points

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  in reply to: Guy Raveh’s comment on: Crit­i­cism of the 80k job board list­ing strategy

  (I see that this is old) Etsy’s product reviews for every product in the seller’s shop are all on every product page. There might be some fancy sorting bringing the more relevant reviews to the top, I’m not sure. So with a model like this, you could review one job posting, and people could see that job posting review on all the company’s other job postings.

• Spencer R. Ericson 🔸May 23, 2023, 4:35 AM

  7 points

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  on: Tips for peo­ple con­sid­er­ing start­ing new incubators

  Thank you so much for writing this post, Joey! I was one of the people who recently emailed you about the potential impact of a “CE light.” I was hoping it would be a way to take people who didn’t have a lot of connection/​money constraints on founding (would likely found soon anyway) and make them much more impactful before launch.

  But looking at it through the lens of competition for mid-level funding helps me see the weaknesses in that. Why move an 80%-good charity closer to launch, when 80%-good isn’t what we need, and we would be much better served by putting more resources in a 100%-good charity?

  I’m glad other people had similar questions so you could make this post! Your post, especially the CE founder pool case study, answers all the questions I had at this point about the idea.

• Spencer R. Ericson 🔸May 8, 2023, 7:15 PM

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  in reply to: Sanjay’s comment on: A Brief & Re­cent His­tory of Fish: What I learned in a weekend

  Thank you!

A Brief & Re­cent His­tory of Fish: What I learned in a weekend

[Question] Women and non-bi­nary EAs, are you in­ter­ested in a net­work­ing group with pro­fes­sional ad­vance­ment ac­tivi­ties?

• Spencer R. Ericson 🔸Mar 2, 2023, 7:18 PM

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  on: A database of effec­tive pro­duc­tivity recommendations

  Here is some info related to recommendations #1 and #9 about lighting. https://​​meaningness.com/​​sad-light-led-lux David Chapman has put quite a bit of research into maximizing lux per dollar. I intend to try a similar setup to him with some Jeep lights and a voltage transformer to get 40,000-60,000 lux in my room. I’m going to add a smart plug so I can use an Apple Shortcuts automation to have the lights turn on with my wake-up alarm.