Week 8: Next Steps

Resources

  1. Grit, humility, and courage: Three ingredients for building EA’s enduring impact (20 minutes)

  2. Attend an EA Global or EAGx conference! There a several excellent reasons to attend - read more here and here.

  3. Start giving more, or more effectively, or make plans for how you could do so in future. For example, you could:

    1. Take the Try Giving pledge or the Giving What We Can pledge

    2. Do some research into EA Funds and/or the charity recommendations of evaluators like GiveWell and Animal Charity Evaluators

    3. Set up monthly donations to a charity you think is high-impact

  5. Apply for 80,000 hours career advising

  6. Attend a meet-up of your local EA group

Exercise: 60 minutes

At the beginning of the course, you set some intentions regarding questions that you’d like to look into during the course, and we shared the following resources on cause prioritisation, career planning, and donation decisions to help you structure your thinking.

  1. For figuring out your cause prioritization, we recommend using this template: [In-Depth EA Program] Worksheet for choosing the most pressing problem.

  2. For donation decisions: Giving What We Can Giving Guides.

  3. For career planning: 80,000 Hours career planning template.

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