AI Use Note: Main body text entirely human written. Claude (Opus 4.8) helped develop models of animal life histories in the appendix.
Cross-posted from Good Structures.
Executive Summary
* Animal advocates sometimes make claims like “there are X of this animal...
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Back in November 2023 I posted here to launch Spiro and raise our first $198k. Two and a half years later this is an update and a fundraiser for the next step.
The short version: we've now reached over-5,900 people with TB preventive medicine, including over 3,000 children under five years old. Our early results have held up well an...
Adapted from my Substack, Funding Anthropalypse.
Short version: if you want a share of the coming Anthropic and OpenAI windfall - the $37bn+ that could be in play next year - the way in is to become 'legibly excellent', so the evaluators and donors that frontier lab staff already trust point them to yo...
I am a former software developer navigating a transition from career break for parenting back to work.
I tend to avoid speaking about managing my career/parenting. I often act as if I am superhuman, avoiding the reality that my resources/time are limited, likely because I do not know how to express my needs for fear of [...judgement?].
I am confronting this internal struggle after a chat with my accountability team working on HIP's Career Impact Track workbook.
I am curious to hear others' experiences speaking of and navigating career/parenting.
How are you managing career/parenting?
What uncertainties did you have about parenting/career? How did you resolve them?
How do you ease the burdens of parenting (child care, isolation, socializing, finding parent friendly community/support)?
Resources I found helpful:
Parenting/community building
Why I love being a "part-time" mom
#178 – Emily Oster on what the evidence actually says about pregnancy and parenting
It Takes a Village! How we Built a Community and Share Childcare
Effective altruism in the garden of ends
How to Live Near Your Friends
Learning to express myself better/socializing/community building
Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
Authentic Relating: A Guide to Rich, Meaningful, Nourishing Relationships
Mental health
Rethink Wellbeing's Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy group program
SeekHealing
IFS therapy
Not a parent myself, so I can't judge if these are valuable, but you might be interested in:
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