I’m doing productivity coaching with Effective Altruists to better succeed at your goals and hopefully improve the world. I can work with you to align your motivation, environment, and habits to accomplish tasks more reliably and quickly.
“Lynette's coaching clearly decreased the time I spent procrastinating and redirected that time towards my actual priorities.” — Igor Kurganov
If you’re having a tough time making progress on a goal, feeling guilty about procrastinating, or generally wanting to be more productive, you can schedule a call to talk about it at lynettebye.com/schedule-call. You can see more details about the coaching at www.lynettebye.com, including impact case studies from previous coachees. A generous sliding scale is available for EAs who are a good fit but can’t comfortably afford coaching right now.
Do you have some quick thoughts on when you expect your coaching to be more valuable to EAs than your average productivity coaching? E.g. What factors are relevant when deciding between paying for coaching with you, and doing a Google search and picking a productivity coach with similar/better prices/experience/reviews?
(Although r.e. prices, given that you've received an EA Grant for this work, we should be careful not to double-count.)
Hey, sorry for the late replies. Didn't realize there weren't notifications for comments.
Good question. You could get a lot of the benefit of working with me from another good productivity coach. I think there is some benefit of working with someone within the EA community, which has somewhat different goals and norms than the general population. I expect my coaching may be particularly more helpful when you're trying to make life decisions. Given my personal goals and the EA grant, my coaching is also more accessible, compared to that of other coaches, for members of the EA community/people contributing toward impactful causes.
What are the forum norms around advertising?
Usually advertising is not welcome, but in this case, Lynette asked (us EA Forum moderators) for permission in advance. Lynette got an EA Grant to do her work and it's complementary to other EA community services.
As a followup to byanyothername's questions: Could you say a little about what distinguishes your coaching from something like a CFAR workshop?
I think the difference is along the lines of a lighter touch, ongoing intervention space vs a one-time, immersive experience. My coaching is focused on implemented changes to your mindsets, strategies, and habits in your daily life. I view this as a structured approach to making gradual changes that last. My understanding is that CFAR, on the other hand, aims to immerse their participants in an unusual context with specific tools and ways of thinking intended to rapidly open you up to new ways of thinking and acting. I don't think they are mutually exclusive since you'll take away different things from both.
I'm hearing of this for the first time now, and actually spent quite a bit of time throughout the last few months thinking about this exact concept and how it seems to be missing in the EA community, and whether this could be something I could possibly work on myself. The problem being that coaching of any kind really isn't my comparative advantage, and thus I'd probably be the wrong person to do it.
I find it rather difficult to decide whether or not scheduling a (series of) call(s) would make sense for me. In your testimonials, many people speak of productivity increases in concrete numbers, such as +15%. Are these their personal judgments, or did you provide a certain framework to measure productivity?
Can you elaborate a bit more on what kind of people would profit most from working with you?
Also +1 on richard_ngo's question about the comparison to CFAR.
People generally profit most from working with me if they have a clear area(s) that they know could be improved in order to more effectively accomplish their goals, but haven't yet successfully fixed it. I generally think the returns are good if improving could save you a couple hours a week that then is used more impactfully.
When discussing outcomes, I encourage my clients to try estimating what the concrete impact has been, so I can get a sense of what each person means rather than vague ideas such as "much more productive". So most of them are estimates based on their personal judgments.