Publicizing our good deeds is really valuable for optimizing global flourishing. So please share any EA-themed accomplishments you have not yet shared on previous Accomplishment open threads, whether recent achievements or ones from long ago. This includes one-time accomplishments or ongoing activities on which you are continuously working. This thread is a completely safe space, with no social norms of "don't be a braggart" applying - just share and be safe in your sharing. Share as many or as few good deeds as you wish.
Please both share about your own good deeds and respond to what other people share with your authentic responses, ranging from upvoting to comments :-) Doing so will help motivate each other to greater accomplishments going forward and build capacity for the EA movement.
Now, sharing about our accomplishments may seek awkward at first, since it goes against social norms, but we in Effective Altruism know the benefit of trying out unorthodox approaches for good reasons. Sharing about our goods deeds results in many benefits for the world:
1) Inspiring others to emulate some aspects of those good deeds through social proof and network effects.
2) Support each other doing good deeds through providing social connections, positive rewards, and warm feelings, which are vital forencouraging further pro-social activities.
3) Amplifying the signal about things you want others to know about, such as EA projects you are involved in, EA articles you published, etc.
P.S. The Accomplishments thread project is very open to optimization - besides sharing about your good deeds, please suggest ways to improve any aspects of it. For the history of previous Accomplishment Open Threads, see here and also this .impact FB discussion.
Of my recent EA accomplishments, I'm most pleased about the piece I recently wrote for the EA Forum on Collaborative Truth-Seeking as a means of figuring out the truth that provides an alternative to debates. It seems that this approach will help fellow EA participants make progress on discussing difficult and emotionally triggering issues. I hope that it contributes to making our movement more welcoming for people who are less inclined toward rhetoric and debate, but still care a lot about figuring out the truth.
I interviewed Boris Yakubchik in the first video of the "Everyday Heroes of Effective Giving" series. These are meant to show the motivations of EA members, whether more dedicated ones or typical movement members, and show them as human beings to whom non-EA participants can relate. The aim is to share such videos widely to help promote EA-themed messages. I also conducted two other interviews, and the videos are currently being processed. I'll make an EA Forum post about them later when they're done.
I published a blog post for The Life You Can Save entitled "The Panama Papers Reveal the Solution to Global Suffering." It's currently under consideration by a non-EA broad venue for publication there.
I helped write up a proposal for an EA Marketing Resource Bank project, which is meant to provide resources on marketing to EA participants and effective charity staff. It's a collaborative project between the Local Effective Altruism Network and Intentional Insights, with assistance from The Life You Can Save. Watch for updates on that soon.
Made some progress on the collaboration between Intentional Insights and The Life You Can Save to promote Giving Games to secular audiences. I'll be going on a secular podcast soon to talk about that. Also, organizing some Giving Games at Ohio State, where I work in my day job as an academic.
Well, that's all for this one, look forward to seeing what others post!
You've been busy, Gleb!