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I think you should write about yourself, your job, and your giving.

Now, I write web content for 80,000 Hours. Previously:

2022-2025: I worked in communications at Coefficient Giving.
2019-2021: I worked at CEA, on the Forum and other projects.
2016-18: Alongside non-EA gigs, I did piecemeal ops work for CEA and CFAR.
2014-15: I founded and ran Yale's student EA group.

Outside of EA, I play Magic: the Gathering on a semi-professional level and donate most of my winnings to charity (this amounts to ~$60K so far).

Outside of EA, I've been a tutor, a freelance writer, a tech support agent, and (very briefly) a music journalist. I blog, and keep a public list of my donations, at aarongertler.com.

62:T48e,

Currently Director of Recruitment for Ambitious Impact (AIM), working to find exceptionally talented and dedicated new founders for our programs, including our flagship Charity Entreprenurship Incubation Program. We offer training, mentorship, and funding for multiple high-impact career paths, launching organisations such as LEEP, FEM and the Shrimp Welfare Initiative.

Previously, I was Director of Partnerships and Field Operations for the Maternal Health Initiative (https://maternalhealthinitiative.org), a global health charity training healthcare workers in lower-income contexts on family planning counseling. I co-founded MHI in September 2022 with Sarah Eustis-Guthrie out of the Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Programme.

Prior to that, I founded Effective Self-Help (https://effectiveselfhelp.org) a research organisation studying the most effective ways people can improve their wellbeing and productivity. I’ve also worked about 20 jobs before all this mostly much less relevant to impactful work, from music festivals and call centers to vineyards and youth counseling.

63:Tf83,

Anonymous Feedback Form

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I'm happy to help

People running EA aligned software projects (about all the normal problems)
EA Software engineers (about.. all the normal problems)

Link to my coaching post.

I'd be happy for help from

People who think about global EA priorities:
- Rewriting arxiv.org: Is this a high impact job?
- Does EA need a really good hiring agency?
Funding my work would be nice

My opinions about hiring

Common mistakes with hiring
Scaring off candidates
An example hiring post I wrote (for CEA)
[more coming]
[please reach out if you'd like help with this]

A better job board

draft 1: 75% of 80k's engineering jobs are unrelated to software development. This board is the other 25%.

Tech community building & outreach

(apparently I'm doing some of this?)

Some ideas I'm working on or strongly considering working on
Are you talking to someone about working on strange neglected problems? Here's how I'd frame it

My opinions about EA software careers

An alternative career guide
Improving CVs (beyond what I saw any professional CV editor doing)
Getting your first paid software job
[more coming]

My personal fit for jobs

Owning the tech of a pre-production (helping with things around it, like some Product)
I really enjoy coaching, user research, explaining tech concepts and tradeoffs simply to non tech people, unclear if this will fit into some future job

Fun

I'm currently reading ProjectLawful and Worth A Candle [26-7-2022]
Big hpmor fan
I like VR
My shirts have cats on them

Contact details

Telegram (though we should probably move to Signal, right?)
Calendly

64:T4f3,

I ran the Forum for three years.

I think you should write about yourself, your job, and your giving.

Now, I write web content for 80,000 Hours. Previously:

2022-2025: I worked in communications at Coefficient Giving.
2019-2021: I worked at CEA, on the Forum and other projects.
2016-18: Alongside non-EA gigs, I did piecemeal ops work for CEA and CFAR.
2014-15: I founded and ran Yale's student EA group.

Outside of EA, I play Magic: the Gathering on a semi-professional level and donate most of my winnings to charity (this amounts to ~$60K so far).

Outside of EA, I've been a tutor, a freelance writer, a tech support agent, and (very briefly) a music journalist. I blog, and keep a public list of my donations, at aarongertler.com.

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  I’m focused on navigating the transition to superintelligent AI in a way that improves the long-term future. I’m sympathetic to the Better Futures view that, on the current margin, improving the value of futures in which we survive may be at least as important as reducing extinction risk. Within this, I’m most interested in AI-driven power concentration, AI rights, and cause prioritization research.
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  *Disclaimer: This post was written in a personal capacity and reflects my views, not necessarily those of my employer. I have not actually attended policy school (I plan to update this post once I have), so please read with a grain of salt.*
  I recently applied to a few policy schools. Despite having read a bunch of great resources before applying, I learned a few things along th..."},"group":null,"coauthors":null,"customHtmlHighlight":"","tags":[{"_id":"of9xBvR3wpbp6qsZC","core":true,"name":"Policy","slug":"policy","tagRel":{"_id":"bQ8qkeLCggPn7x2fy","voteType":null,"baseScore":1},"postCount":3245,"description":"
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  Although people spend more time on their jobs than on any other activity besides sleep—about 80,000 hours over the course of a typical life..."},{"_id":"78sSkbNRimvYJcCxh","core":false,"name":"Education","slug":"education","tagRel":{"_id":"mpip3wWC269GdwWdA","voteType":null,"baseScore":1},"postCount":233,"description":"
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  TL;DR: “Effective Dropouts” is meant to be a casual fun excuse for reminding people that dropping out of a degree can be a good decision, as a counter to all the existing pressure for degrees being the default/only/obvious way. The rest of the post is mostly a joke.
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  Anyone who drops out of a degree.
  But, having the inverse of university v..."},"group":null,"coauthors":[{"_id":"QjCHvg4Q2biAF94hA","slug":"zekesherman","karma":221,"deleted":false,"jobTitle":null,"username":"zekesherman","createdAt":"2019-03-04T20:26:34.943+00:00","postCount":1,"displayName":"zekesherman","commentCount":10,"organization":null,"biographyHtml":null,"profileImageId":null},{"_id":"QkxCDgh8H6dThFRQC","slug":"technicalities","karma":5902,"deleted":false,"jobTitle":null,"username":"technicalities","createdAt":"2015-06-04T14:21:19.634+00:00","postCount":29,"displayName":"technicalities","commentCount":433,"organization":null,"biographyHtml":"","profileImageId":"Profile/lstqqf5ynkp6eeoz3blf"},{"_id":"qrooauYodoq9Sdyow","slug":"vardev","karma":106,"deleted":false,"jobTitle":null,"username":"Vardev","createdAt":"2022-01-25T07:31:30.6+00:00","postCount":1,"displayName":"Vardev","commentCount":7,"organization":null,"biographyHtml":null,"profileImageId":null},{"_id":"s3xtrF8KpFhYp87mn","slug":"soof-golan-1","karma":139,"deleted":false,"jobTitle":"Freelance Senion Software Consultant","username":"Soof Golan","createdAt":"2022-03-29T10:10:36.36+00:00","postCount":2,"displayName":"Soof Golan","commentCount":6,"organization":null,"biographyHtml":"
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