All of Sasha Berezhnoi's Comments + Replies

Have you used any ads to promote these videos? For me as a viewer, it's always suspicious to see a large number of views with very little engagement (for AI video: 1.1M views, 500 likes, 50 comments). I'd suggest relying more on organic growth in the future, it will give the videos more credibility in the eyes of viewers.

Hi Elliot, we listed the organizations on the career fair's page on Swapcard. Keep in mind that some orgs are hosting office hours during the weekend but are not represented at the career fair and vice versa.

Hi Michael,

Here are some quick thoughts:

• Make sure to block some time for attendees to reflect on their conference goals & planning. We are hosting a workshop on Friday to encourage this type of reflection ("First-timers at EAGx", at 3 pm UTC). You can also use our planning worksheet.
• Group activities like watching talks together, in-person 1-1s, and shared lunch seem like good ideas!
• It is better if space for 1-1s isn't packed very tight. It can be distracting when lots of people speaking around. And if two people are attending the same meetup or office

No, there is no cap. I definitely encourage you to apply! Based on previous EAGxVirtual events, we are expecting 1,000 - 1,500 participants. 

I'm very excited about organizing this event! You can find a sidenote on my personal experience with EAGxVitual in last year's announcement. During the recent career conversations week it became even more clear to me how pivotal the EAGxVirtual 2020 was for my life and career. It helped me to find a mentor, with whom we ended up working for 6 months, and to identify the next steps to test my career fit in multiple areas - community building, research, and charity entrepreneurship. I never thought spending a weekend in front of a laptop could have such huge... (read more)

I really like these themed events on the EA Forum and would love to see more of them! Thanks to everyone who contributes with posts, quick takes, and comments.

We scheduled related online discussions at EA Anywhere to facilitate knowledge-sharing and highlight useful career-related actions. Everyone is welcome to join!

• September 10 at 6 pm UTC (Europe/America)
• September 11 at 11 am UTC (Asia/Oceania)
   

Hey everyone, we rescheduled both discussions to next weekend as @Dion and I both have caught a cold. This will give some extra time for those who haven't finished reading the book yet!

Updated discussion schedule:

• (Europe/Americas) September 3 at 6 pm UTC
• (Asia/Oceania) September 3 at 5:30 am UTC

In line with the EA Strategy Fortnight, we at EA Anywhere have decided to center this month's discussion around major strategic EA questions and host two virtual events this Sunday for different time zones:

• Europe/America - June 18 at 6 pm UTC
• Asia/Oceania - June 18 at 7 am UTC

Thanks to EA GatherTown team for your efforts! It's a great coworking space for remote teams. When we worked on EAGxVirtual last year it definitely helped us to sync faster and do more work. I also know many people outside of major EA hubs who are using the GT coworking space to stay accountable and productive. And because embedded pomodoro timers are synced you can have breaks at the same time and chat with others.

We've received lots of excited comments about EA GT in the EAGxVirtual '22 feedback form, so we are looking into incorporating it even more this year as a virtual venue. Though some people were confused with the platform and asked for a better guidance/onboarding.

Hi Alisha, you can check the article by Kelsey Piper on disaster relief. Our conclusions were similar to the ones she makes there.

You can join EA Anywhere Slack and ask your question in the #all-questions-welcome channel to collect more perspectives from participants.

Hi everyone, the host got really sick and can't host the meeting today.

It's been rescheduled for next Sunday, May 7th.

Hi Manuel, we've been running a monthly book club at EA Anywhere for more than a year now. You can find the list of the books we read and discussion questions in this folder. I also really like this ranked list of EA-relevant books and often use it for inspiration.

But we host only one discussion per book which is different from, say, the 8-week The Precipice reading group or the 6-week WWOtF reading group curriculum.

We have a #study-buddy channel on EA Anywhere Slack designed specifically for finding collaborators, reading buddies, and accountability partn... (read more)

We have rescheduled the event from November 13 to December 4th because one of the organizers is sick, sorry for the inconvenience.

In the meantime, you can explore quizzes on the most common misconceptions via Gapminder.

I'm a big fan of Gapminder and their quizzes on global development. Good to see more content like that. I even scheduled an event at EA Anywhere based on your quiz. Thanks for putting it all together!

Update: all the talks from the conference are now available in this playlist.

Hi Mischi, all the talks, workshops, and fireside chats will be available on CEA's YouTube channel next week.

You should have received the Swapcard invite by now. If not, please reach out to virtual@eaglobalx.org

We process registrations manually, so once you signed up for the conference there is a small delay before you get the Swapcard link.

Thanks for pointing this out, Andy! I've updated the post. The application deadline is October 19th.

The deadline is 8:00 UTC on 19 October.

(I added this to the event description)

Thanks, Kirsten! We will announce a tentative agenda in 2-3 weeks.

Thanks for sharing the review, Ozy. I picked the movie for a watch party and everyone loved it! It touches on so many topics relevant to EA, definitely worth watching. And it aged really well, some scenes are very sweet and touching.

For the majority of my Russian friends, Meduza is the main news source. It's more than a news aggregator. They release a lot of exclusive content, podcasts, interviews, newsletter, and FAQs on the most important topics. They also do fact-checking and have inside sources within the government. 

In recent days most of the independent media operated from Russia were blocked (e.g., TV Rain channel, Echo of Moscow radio station). There are almost no "other sources" left. And most important, the Russian government can't threaten the editors, because Meduza i... (read more)

Unfortunately, TV Rain website was blocked a few days ago by the Russian government and they suspended all the broadcasting. They operated from Moscow and risks of repressions for them were really high.

I would say that Meduza is the main independent news source in Russia right now. They can experience funding gaps because a lot of Russian citizens won't be able to make donations with their bank cards because of sanctions. Thanks for your donations!

Here's a preliminary schedule for the event:

1. Ben Williamson - Effective Self-Help. Strategies for more effective behavior change
2. Madhu Sriram - Behind-the-scenes work involved in running a chapter of a nonprofit
3. Simon Newstead - How to become an impact investor
4. Thomas Francine - How Skinny Dip Day helps to raise money for Fistula Foundation
5. Harrison Durland - The potential value of “epistemic mapping” for metascience/meta-research
6. Mike Pool - A strength-building exercise routine and diet

Thanks for bringing this up! CEA helped EA Anywhere get a free Slack pro plan - they might be able to do the same for other groups. Those interested should contact groups@centreforeffectivealtruism.org

I've listed existing Slack workspaces I know here and included invite links where possible.

You can also look through a list of existing online groups on EA Hub. It contains more groups because a lot of them are hosted on Facebook and do not have Slack.

By creating #announcements channel where only admins can post you can separate group updates from other posts and discussions. The goal is to increase the visibility of important announcements everyone should know about. #general is usually the default channel for discussions and sources everyone in the workspace might be interested in, so the posting rate is higher there.

We've exchanged preliminary thoughts on EAGxVirtual with Lizka and agreed that it would be better to run a completely virtual conference instead of a hybrid next year. It will allow taking full advantage of the virtual format instead of mirroring the in-person conferences. EA Anywhere team would be happy to contribute to organizing this. We're in touch with the CEA, but not ready to announce anything yet.

I think LPR can actually make a group more welcoming rather than unwelcoming if it's located outside of EA hubs. Without LPR, career advice will be suitable only for a tiny amount of people who consider moving abroad where effective organizations are located. After research on local high-impact careers, there'll be suitable advice at least for some people who doesn't consider moving. A lot of people don't want to live abroad because of family bonds/not enough career capital/language barriers, and it's preferable for the community to have some thoughts on local impactful careers.

Thanks for your effort!

Last year I've created a channel on effective altruism in Russian and made five videos on various topics, focusing mostly on introduction to main cause areas and fighting popular misconceptions on foreign aid (no English subtitles available, sorry). Each video was ~10 minutes long and they got >4000 views in total. With videos, I reached a 50 times larger audience than with offline public talks, but it was very time-consuming. I spent around 30-35 hours on making each video and eventually stopped making new ones, even though the audience was very f... (read more)

Animal Welfare

Animal Charity Evaluators has a channel with educational videos, public talks, and grantees updates.

Global health and development

J-PAL uploads lots of lectures about development economics and RCTs, as well as explanations of their research.

Econimate is a channel aimed at making cutting-edge research in economics accessible and engaging. What questions are economists asking, how are they tackling them, and how does this research help us understand the world around us.

Here's a review of several courses from the program. I'm currently studying the third course out of five, and then I want to apply for on-campus accelerated Master's at MIT. I'll be happy to answer questions about the program if you have them.

David, thank you for a useful summary.

I already use some of the techniques (for example, closed space with chairs in the circle creates more friendly and warm atmosphere, than open space with low density and classroom style chairs).

We've been organizing meetups for 4 month and made some mistakes. Sometimes guests were bored, or they were expecting something else, because we chose improper audience sources. But meetups become better as we learn, and we'll use this advices to make them even better.

For me the most important idea here is to think mo... (read more)