By Julia Wise, Damon Sasi and Chana Messinger
There's a lot of younger people around EA right now. A call with one led to a writing up of some boring "you probably already know this but it's good to make it explicit" advice, which the others of us fleshed out and added to.
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I, Chana, am experimenting with making this a linkpost to a google doc with full comment access. Please feel free to add feedback / thoughts / disagreements, with good epistemic norms (ideally nonanonymous, and putting whether you have thoughts from personal experience as a young person in a community like this, or working with them or neither).
(Experiment meaning comment access might get taken away, or doc might get put on private to reflect on how the experiment is going)
Tyler Cowen's standard generic advice is "find excellent peers and mentors". I agree with that as one of the most valuable things to do, whether teenager or otherwise.
At a previous job, HR would tell all the new hires to try to find a mentor. However, what they did not mention was that going up to a random senior person and saying 'hello would you be my mentor' was seen as cringe and annoying by many such people!