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By coincidence I just published a similar post to this and mentioned being honest / transparent in EA job applications. I think your examples are really helpful (and I've linked them to my post).
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Subtitle: On vegan advocacy, effective altruism, and FIFA
I turn 40 today. Here are some hot takes.
On factory farming
1. Our biggest challenge is salience. If factory farming led the evening news, it wouldn’t last lo...
Impressions from the 21st Annual U.S. Cluster Headache Patient Conference, organized by Clusterbusters.
On the morning of the last day of the conference, E. was hanging out with other “clusterheads” outside the conference hotel when he started having a cluster headache attack. Before he could go back to his hotel room, J. offered E. his DMT v...
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The movement has an evidence problem. To solve it, for each intervention we need to know:
* What types of evidence that intervention needs
* What types of evidence different sources can give us
In this post, we outline a framework for evidencing an intervention through five stages:
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I really enjoyed this post, especially the explanation about honesty, and the hiring process being collaborative if your goal is aligned with that of the org you're applying for.
Likewise - I listened to this via the Nonlinear Library but decided to open the Forum version just to leave a comment endorsing this post's advice.
Both this and Six Takeaways from EA Global and EA Retreats contain a lot of things that I already believed were useful advice that not enough people are aware of and that I wasn't aware of a good concise clear writeup on, so I appreciate you (Akash) producing these posts :)