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sorry for the lack of context! In this case, it's a series of  talks from external researchers, and the topic has to be something relevant to developmental economics, but no other specific topic otherwise. 

Thanks! She talked there last year or the year before... But just out of curiosity, are you saying that she is an effective altruist? This didn't seem obvious to me in previous exchanges with her...

Thanks!! She looks perfect, and it wasn't obvious from her professional page that she was EA, so this was a great find - I've suggested her name.

Hi Simon,

I couldn't agree more!  Personally, I invested the ~200 US$ to join noomii.com, which has a coaching circle (you coach someone and someone else coaches you). I've learned a lot from these exchanges with other coaches, although I sometimes do think that it would be interesting to be paired up with someone else within EA. However, since I only coach it part-time, I understand it's not in other's best interest to get paired up with me :)

I don't know if you've already met with Lynette Bye, potentially one of the most experienced EA coaches, or be... (read more)

Hi Jamie, it's been about a year and I wondered if you had new thoughts based on your experience?

Just a little update after coaching for a year, with a maximum of 3 clients a week (about 80h in the whole year).

My clients report benefits to themselves,  the time I spend coaching is usually a pleasure for me, and everyone likes the feeling that the money is going to effective charities. I don't think I've been stealing too much work from professional coaches because the majority of the people I have worked with have signed a promise to donate when they are better off/in a different legal situation, so they wouldn't have been able to pay someone now... (read more)

Thank you! Happy to have a chat if interested - my email is on my site ;)

If you are trying to train yourself to have an intuition on the sizes, you can use visualization tools, and there are two main ones at present:

• this visualization tool for group differences. The tool is based on Cohen's d, and since Hedges' g is just Cohen's d with a sample size correction, the tool will help you grasp to what extent two groups overlap/differ.
• this visualization tool for association between two variables. This tool is based on Pearson's r correlations, but you can conceptually use it to develop intuitions for other tools measuring associatio

In your case, a run-of-the-mill productivity coach, who focuses on good habits, may not be ideal: It would take a lot of effort for small gains (due to diminishing returns). 

But you could try coaches who aim to help you in mid- and long-term planning and strategies, and/or with clarifying values and thought patterns that influence those larger decisions. To give you two examples from within the EA/rationalist community (more names here), Lynette Bye has written about how you can prioritize projects on her blog and Pamela J Hobart introduces herself as... (read more)