Mitchell Laughlin🔸
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Analyst in the Australian Treasury reporting on the economies of Australia's major trading partners and financial markets. Giving What We Can (GWWC) pledge member since September 2022. EA Sydney organiser.
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If you're in Sydney, come along to EA Sydney's events, and give us feedback on how we're doing.
How I can help others
If you're new to EA, in Sydney, and keen to learn more feel free to reach out. I'd be happy to chat about effective giving, high-impact careers, moral philosophy, etc.
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I have some hesitations about supporting Richard Hanania given what I understand of his views and history. But in the same way I would say I support *example economic policy* of *example politician I don't like* if I believed it was genuinely good policy, I think I should also say that I found this article of Richard's quite warming.
This feels self-flagellating, and after reading your family planning vs animal welfare piece, in which you spent 26% of the word count explaining why your analysis was bad despite pretty much all of the comments being positive, and which I think was really valuable, I am a little worried you might be underselling yourself.
As Charlie's said, it is a little tricky for an outsider to know what you're capable of without more information. I don't want to be unrealistic and suggest that you'll be able to do whatever you set your mind to, but I would note that aptitude is not fixed.
If it would help to have some back and forth with someone, feel free to reach out.
Strongly upvoting so others see it. This is similar in fashion to some work that Greg Sadler has done with Good Ancestors Policy in Australia (which has had a surprising amount of success). I also know Ben from some time when we were both in Canberra and am comfortable in vouching for his character.
tldr, thanks for writing.
I would consider myself to be a very trusting and forgiving person who always starts with the mentality of "Yes, but most people are inherently good". I definitely went through a long period of "Ah well I mean surely Sam (SBF) isn't actually a 'bad' guy right". This felt like a productive slap in the face.
I would still prefer to be more than less trusting, but maybe I should dial it back a bit. Thanks.
Hi Barth, my very quick take would be that (if you hadn't already done so) there may be merits to reaching out to a careers advising org such as 80K Hours. I intuitively imagine that there are quite a few organizations that would benefit from either hiring or receiving advising from someone of your expertise, and that (e.g.,) 80K would be able to point you in the right direction.
Copy-pasting a comment I made after a careers event I ran*
an events org(*edit: reread this and realized I was illiterate) for EA Sydney (some of which may be relevant to you):80,000 Hours
- Career guide: https://80000hours.org/career-guide/
- Career planning series: https://80000hours.org/career-planning/process/
- Free one-on-one advice: https://80000hours.org/speak-with-us/apply/?referred_by=Elliot%20Teperman&referrer_Id=1231593241
- Jobs Board: https://jobs.80000hours.org/
High Impact Professionals
-Impact Accelerator Program: https://www.highimpactprofessionals.org/impact...
- Join the Talent Directory: https://www.highimpactprofessionals.org/find-a-job
- Professional and Workplace groups: https://www.highimpactprofessionals.org/groups
Animal Advocacy Careers
- Online Advocacy Course: https://www.animaladvocacycareers.org/course
- Jobs Board: https://www.animaladvocacycareers.org/job-board
Successif
- Career Services Application: https://airtable.com/apppnsBL2JjaU.../paghWMfYs63ePKfOv/form
Probably Good
- Core Career Advice Series: https://probablygood.org/career-advice/
- Personal Career Advising: https://probablygood.org/advising/
- Jobs Board: https://jobs.probablygood.org/
Consultants for Impact
- Career Conversations: https://www.consultantsforimpact.org/career-conversations
- Career Check-In Template: https://docs.google.com/.../1EP7gsZcCIFxV107mdhPB.../edit...
- Network Directory: https://www.consultantsforimpact.org/network-directory
A really good post on EA careers
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/.../advice-for-early...