James Herbert

Co-director @ Effective Altruism Netherlands
1681 karmaJoined Working (6-15 years)Amsterdam, Netherlands
effectiefaltruisme.nl

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I'm currently a co-director at EA Netherlands (with Marieke de Visscher). We're working to build and strengthen the EA community here.

Before this, I worked as a consultant on urban socioeconomic development projects and programmes funded by the EU. Before that, I studied liberal arts (in the UK) and then philosophy (in the Netherlands).

Hit me up if you wanna find out about the Dutch EA community! :)

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Oh this is great, thanks for putting it together!

There's also a Cole Killian EA Forum account with one comment from 2022. Looks like he's deleted things though. I googled the post 'SBF, Pascal's Mugging, and a Proposed Solution' and found a dead link. It's on Internet Archive though, you can check it here

This is cool and I didn't know it existed. Thanks for sharing!

How confident are respondents, or people in general, about the results of the valuable skills question? This feels particularly relevant to me at the moment as a community builder.

Could you flag which questions you felt most comfortable with? Or least comfortable with? Whichever is easier :)

I think this post exemplifies great community-building practice - identifying a real gap, testing a plausible intervention, and iterating based on feedback. The Impact Workbook is a thoughtful and structured way to help students move beyond the introductory stage, and it’s really impressive to see an MVP already in action. 

One thing that could make this even stronger is more explicit success metrics - this could be something relatively simple, e.g., usage stats. I also second Alex's comment - it would be great if you had more guidance on how organisers can implement this in their own groups, perhaps a short ‘How to Get Started’?

Have these been published yet? Apologies if I missed this... Would be handy! 

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