I'm (Ben) Clifford. I work as a Product Manager for the Centre for Effective Altruism.
I first got involved in EA in 2011 when I started the GWWC chapter at the University of Warwick. Since I worked for GWWC, was a software developer, an early employee at Founders Pledge and started a workplace giving startup.
Feel free to get in touch about:
- Product Management
- Startup entrepreneurship
- EA movement building
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Very helpful - thanks a lot Ivy!
Awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Interesting, thanks! I'd be curious to ask about the connections you have made on slack etc. I'll message you.
Relatedly, this uptick is kind of wild to me.
Thanks - I'll correct that.
Good to see this question Garrison! I'm working on effectivealtruism.org and planning to add a section like this to the website.
This is a decent existing page for this but very tricky to find: https://www.effectivealtruism.org/impact
I think I agree with this. Two things that might make starting a startup a better learning opportunity than your alternative, in spite of it being a worse learning environment:
- You are undervalued by the job market (so you can get more opportunities to do cool things by starting your own thing)
- You work harder in your startup because you care about it more (so you get more productive hours of learning)
Cool - thanks for engaging in this! Excited to see what you do in future.
Thanks for the reply.
I agree no correlation would be surprising but I wouldn’t be totally surprised if it was less predictive than say ”openness to new ideas” or something.
I wonder if you could learn more by interviewing people who are just starting to get interested in EA and seeing how their responses change over say a year? Interviewing people who have just started an intro to EA fellowship/virtual program could work well for this.
Kind of obvious list, but things that I’ve enjoyed about other offices I’ve worked at: