Hello! I'm Toby. I'm the EA Forum Product Lead at CEA. I'm responsible for the EA Forum's success.
You'll see me posting a lot, authoring the EA Newsletter and curating Forum Digests, making moderator comments and decisions, and more. I'm the person to reach out to with feature requests, complaints, suggestions, etc...
Outside of work, I'm hosting a podcast with my friend Frances: The World Can Be Better, and writing blogposts on anything I feel like.
Before working at CEA, I studied Philosophy at the University of Warwick, and worked for a couple of years on a range of writing and editing projects within the EA space. I also helped run the Amplify Creative Grants program, to encourage more impactful podcasting and YouTube projects (the biggest success of the program was 'How I learned to love shrimp').

Yes, but there is always more of this to do. I.e. some great posts come from me nudging organisations or small conferences to post more. Bottleneck is more time than anything.
Editing to add - Forum readers can help here. If you read something that you think should be on the Forum, nudge the author to post it. If you don't have time, ping me to do so. Sometimes I offer light editing or accountability support as well to get things over the line.
Thanks both! Relatedly, the Online Team is now more empowered to follow a strategy where growth is not the key aim of the Forum (currently our best guess is measuring 'mind changes', but stay tuned for precise metrics).
I'm very open to suggestions for how to make the EA Forum more of a place where crucial conversations are being had, and decisions are being made. This includes critiques. I'd love to hear more from people on how they think they Forum is falling short, here, in DM, or over a call.
Interesting! Kind of odd to see the peak being Wednesday (the day I write and send the digest) because posts posted on Wednesday will necessarily have the lowest karma relative to their final amount, and I start off with a list of all posts sorted by karma. Recommended matters most because the rest of the digest is for announcements etc... which are featured when relevant regardless of karma.
I’m curating this post.
Being aware of and grateful for privilege, and wanting to pass on our luck, has always been an important moral strain in effective altruism (just look at GWWC’s live pledge motivations). This post is a great example of it[1].
Thanks for posting Nick!
I also value the exploration of the reverse - the guilt at not using privilege when you could.
Yep :)
It's live!
@RohanSR🔸 does this resolve the design issue? Or are there other elements that you're not a fan of as it stands?
Thanks Nick, good flags.
Mostly because I think that that's a broader category, and I want to keep this one bounded.
I'll give quick takes on each without rereading them (these are great examples, thanks!):
I like these examples because they make clear some of the real trade-offs here, thanks for putting them together! Feel free to push me on this further, this is just a quick comment.
Couldn't resist and claude coded it - list view is in code review now.
Thanks!
Yep for V2 I'm already planning to allow for a more front-pagey looking option with no images, and just posts layed out in a list. Hopefully that'll address the information density point (let me know it if doesn't).
And on the screenshot, I agree, those look weird, I'll make some tweaks.
Thank you Sarah!
You've been a great manager and leader of our team.
I'm more excited and hopeful about the future of the Forum now than I have been for a long time, and that's because of the support within CEA that you drummed up for us, and the strategy that you helped create. I've grown a lot with your help, and I'm glad to now have an inner anti-authoritarian Sarah that I can call on whenever I'm tempted to defer.
Thanks for everything, and best of luck at 80K :)