Great title and interesting and lesson-filled investigation now and I'm sure into future posts. Thanks!

So, I am taking away that the overall point of the post is that a formal global EA group should be created, and it should (and can) follow democractic standards, as has been proven in some national groups. Is that right?

Is there an official EA Global group currently? to me it seems that in essence that is what CEA stands for. And as it is a stand alone organization, would the idea be to 

1. change CEA governance, so that it falls under the EA Global group, or for CEA to be democratically structured directly or 

2. to create a partner EA Global group that works in partnership with CEA, where the former is governed by its members? 

I like the thoughts provoked by this post, and I can't find much to disagree on, but it feels like it gets into governance details of follow on steps, and we're still on step 1: a higher level discussion about how/where/if/why an EA Global group should exist. (Note though that I'm not directly involved in meta/community building EA, so it may be background others are aware of but I do not have)

It's been 3 weeks since this post was published, and there has been 6 comments and 5 votes on it. If the high level conclusion that Trump’s tariffs will increase the number of people living in extreme poverty (<$1.90 a day) by about 2 million I wonder how many EA orgs or individuals can claim accomplishments with greater impact than that. 

This has got to be historically low post engagement if measured by: (individuals into/out of extreme poverty / post engagement) so (2M / 11) = that's 181,818 more people in extreme poverty for each post engagement. I don't have comparison numbers to other topics/cause areas currently, but initial intuition makes it seem very, very, very neglected.

I see folks talking about increasing the "fun" below, and I think that is worthwhile indeed. Fun should really be a component of anything in life. In New Orleans there's huge parades/parties after someone has passed, or even after a tragedy, because fun, connection and positivity aligns with hope and celebration.

There is also a staleness in the sense that EAs seem to want to communicate/speak/write in a very standardized way that is simply not interesting prose to grab or hold attention, therefore it's just down to the interest in the subject/context that's important. I see the same problem in live presentations in the EA space often (this is not exclusive to EA events btw)...the context is great, but if you really want to have an impact, the context is simply just one part of the formula of communicating effectively. I think seeing more personality in the writing on the forum would be beneficial. I'll take my own advice here and make it a point to consider a lesser barrier when engaging on the forum, and allow some personality through on my own posts.

As an easy and direct action that may increase exposure, here's one idea: create something that EAs that meet in whatever capacity would like to connect with. By this I mean something like a monthly ice breaker, that groups that meet either in person or online can go to on the Forum once / month say at the beginning of each of their meetings just to kick things off or potentially to close things out rather than an ice breaker. In this way you get folks who are already in the EA mindset and dedicating time to EA adjacent matters, to interact. 

Last comment is related to bringing EA into the wider world that has not heard about it, or doesn't know much about it, rather than increasing engagement by current EAs. That's obviously a huge task, maybe one question forward on it is, who are the EA forums "competitors" and why do those folks participate there but maybe not here? This is a big task I know

I'm a big fan of the forum however, including the digest emails and the highlights and the annual recap etc, so y'all are doing a great job in my mind and thank you for the work and dedication.

You go into it a bit, and your post certainly answers some very important questions, but two that should be dug into further by someone are Why do other rich donors avoid the EA space (intentional, accidental, misinformed) and How do we get them to change that/those reasons.

Thanks for the synopsis! It's a very significant topic, especially because of what it means to have a very small number of individuals either directly or indirectly steer the whole (89%) EA community.

Awesome thank for the links and thoughts. I have actually been debating applying to the s risk fellowship, but with your mention finally applied.

Agreed that the big picture falls under the human alignment / malicious human use. It's likely the area which has been more researched historically, and I need to delve deeper into it. I've been putting off being more involved in LessWrong, but I will now make an account there as well with your highlight. 

Thank you

I appreciate you sharing these! I've already started to read them

I'm not associated with EV but yes your intuition is correct, I first saw the openings a little while ago. 

I'm curious how is this opening related to the opening at CEA for a Groups Support Contractor from last month? Did that process reach fulfillment or is this new posting replacing it? https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/careers/groups-support-contractor?fbclid=IwAR3Tbrf1yqLpCBV60UAwI3FE-rM5GyncAfT4nlM0NZoNUbjPsoph9vWli3A

Awesome! I'd love the templates you're using now. 

You do mention doing the tasks that require the least effort first, and progressively towards tasks that require more effort if the priority is otherwise similar. How come?

Asking because I've actually tried switching that up lately for myself. I used to do the easiest things to get off the list, but realized that my mental capacity wanes as the day goes, and maybe its best to to high mental drain tasks first because low mental drain tasks I still have enough energy for late in the day. Still adjusting though!