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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Do you (/anyone reading this) know if TapTapSend is for-profit (/whether they're just using their current profits to scale but have hopes of slashing fees once they do so)?
I know very little about the business model of remittance companies, but from two seconds' worth of thought, this seems like an area where a nonprofit could try to undercut the market and provide a massive public good.
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...
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.
Can confirm, and happy to vouch.
Tax-effective Australian charities and funds: