Podcasts about AMF

La scission de Vivendi en quatre entités vient de connaître un nouveau rebondissement inattendu et inédit : la Cour d'appel de Paris remet en cause la décision de l'Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) de dispenser Bolloré d'offre publique de retrait préalable à l'opération. Quelles sont les conséquences à attendre pour l'actionnaire ? Les explications de Laurent Grassin, directeur de la rédaction de Boursorama. Ecorama du 29 avril 2025, présenté par David Jacquot sur Boursorama.com Hébergé par Audion. Visitez https://www.audion.fm/fr/privacy-policy pour plus d'informations.

Här hittar du våra AI-genererade uppläsningar av Dagens Arbetes nyhetsartiklar från vecka 14, 2025.Artiklarna som förekommer i uppläsningen är:1: Beskedet: Hälften av Northvolts personal måste gå⁠2: Massuppsägningar på Northvolt – endast 1 700 jobb blir kvar⁠3: IF Metall efter massuppsägningarna på Northvolt: ”Finns en rädsla att man frångår principen om las”4: Uppgifter: Personal flyttas runt när Northvolt prioriterar Scania-linjen: ”Hela havet stormar”⁠⁠5: Avtal klart: 6,4 procent på två år⁠⁠6: Fackens förhandlare om avtalet: ”Leverans på alla frågor – enorm facklig styrka”⁠⁠7: Arbetsgivarna bekymrade: ”Kan äventyra konkurrenskraften”⁠⁠8: Lön, arbetstid, övertid – här är nyheterna i nya avtalet⁠⁠9: Röster om det nya avtalet: ”Ganska bra ändå”⁠⁠10: Interna siffror – exakt så många får lämna Northvolts olika bolag: ”Kommer bli tufft”⁠⁠11: IF Metall: Northvolt gör sig av med fackliga företrädare: ”Nu upphör det fackliga arbetet”⁠⁠12: Harald Gatu: Tiden för frihandel är förbi – nu gäller den starkes rätt⁠⁠13:⁠⁠14: Så reagerar parterna på Trumps tullar: ”Stå upp för människors lika värde i detta kaos”⁠⁠15: Så vill ministern skydda svensk industri i handelskriget: ”Undanta viktiga insatsvaror”16: Facket överraskat av Volvos besked: ”Förväntar mig information”17: Folksam säljer Teslaaktier – LO-ägda AMF behåller: ”Är nära gränsen”

Här kan du lyssna på en AI-genererad uppläsning av följande artikel: Folksam säljer Teslaaktier – LO-ägda AMF behåller: ”Är nära gränsen”

Tulloron hänger över marknaden. Hör Business Swedens chefsekonom Lena Sellgren och Kepler Cheuvreux chefsstrateg Martin Guri. EQT och huvudägaren lägger ett bud på det snabbväxande programvarubolaget Fortnox. Men storägaren AMF:s aktiechef Anders Oscarsson är skeptisk. Programledare: Pontus Herin och Fredrik Lennander.

Dans cet entretien, Arnaud reçoit Louis Grégoire Logre, cofondateur de la société Agama, afin de discuter de leur parcours entrepreneurial. Arnaud exprime son admiration pour Louis, qui l'a aidé à obtenir son agrément AMF grâce à son expertise réglementaire. Louis partage son expérience de l'AMF où il a travaillé de 2002 à 2010, ce qui lui a permis de bien comprendre le monde de la conformité financière. Après avoir quitté l'AMF, il a cofondé Agama en 2013 avec plusieurs associés, se spécialisant dans la création et l'accompagnement de sociétés de gestion. Agama a récemment été vendue au groupe mondial IQEQ, ce qui leur permettra de renforcer leur offre de services en Europe. Louis insiste sur l'importance de la compliance et de la conformité réglementaire, et sur l'impact de l'innovation et de la technologie dans leur approche.Tout au long de la discussion, Louis et Arnaud reviennent sur les défis rencontrés lors de la création de leur entreprise, l'évolution des marchés financiers, et l'importance de la conformité réglementaire pour les sociétés de gestion. Louis souligne la nécessité d'une approche dynamique et attentive aux besoins des clients, et partage comment Agama a su s'imposer comme un leader du secteur en France. Il parle aussi des valeurs et de la culture d'entreprise qui ont été développées au sein d'Agama, mettant en avant l'importance des partenariats, de l'innovation et de la réactivité. Enfin, Arnaud remercie Louis pour son soutien et sa collaboration, en soulignant comment le succès d'OVNI Capital a été rendu possible grâce à des partenaires de confiance comme Agama.[00:00:00]: Introduction[00:01:34]: Présentation de la cession d'Agama à EQ IQ[00:02:28]: Début de l'histoire d'Ovni Capital et de l'agrément AMF[00:05:00]: Rôle de l'AMF et expérience de Louis Grégoire Logre[00:08:04]: Critères de sélection des clients par Agama[00:12:12]: Départ de l'AMF et création d'Agama[00:16:19]: Innovation et développement d'outils technologiques[00:19:32]: Succès et moments marquants d'Agama[00:21:19]: ADN et valeurs d'Agama[00:27:46]: Raisons du rachat par le groupe IQ IQ[00:28:51]: Conseils pour les jeunes entrepreneurs en régulation[00:31:25]: RemerciementsDistribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Episode 40: Our First Live Show! Guests Stefan Johansson and Tim Possingham joined us on stage at the Adelaide Motorsport Festival. Stefan discussed his time in F1, the comparison between IndyCar and F1 in the early '90s, Scott McLaughlin and his success so far, and the age-old debate: who was better — Alain Prost or Ayrton Senna? Tim Possingham gave us insight into the future of AMF, the cars we might see in upcoming events, and his pick for the favourite car of the entire festival. Get yaself some AHU merch: https://apexhuntersunited.com/ Discount code: AHU15 for 15% off at: https://www.eastcoastcarrentals.com.au/ http://www.lancastermotors.com.au/ https://www.tricoproducts.com.au/ https://lp.strattonfinance.com.au/ahu/ https://www.shawandpartners.com.au/home Quad Lock: https://bit.ly/3QLeiV5  

Jarden’s head of commodities says giving only a cursory view you would be forgiven for being excited by last night’s unchanged GDT auction result, [WMP 0.2%, SMP -0.4%, AMF -1.8%, Butter 1.1%, and Cheese 1%] when of course the devil lies in the detail. Given how the index is compiled, he says the flat overall result may hide some of the more dramatic moves in the numbers that count to New Zealand dairy farmers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What do bowling pins and Italian 2 strokes have to do with Harley Davidson? That would be the HD ownership of Aermacchi and the AMF ownership of Harley Davidson during the 60s and 70s. At this time, HD sold scooters, dirtbikes, minibikes and even a moped alongside the big cruisers they are still known for today. Why did they all go away, and will we ever see the diversification of HD again? But first we start with getting to know young riders Sophia and Arden, Liza plays a game of Moto Mad Libs, and we finish with a race update from John and emails. With Liza, Stumpy John, Miss Emma, Neil, Sophia, Arden and Bagel. Join our Discord at discord.gg/hpRZcucHCT www.motorcyclesandmisfits.com motorcyclesandmisfits@gmail.com www.patreon.com/motorcyclesandmisfits www.zazzle.com/store/recyclegarage www.youtube.com/channel/UC3wKZSP0J9FBGB79169ciew adifferentagenda.com/products/the-lost-tribe-25 www.leodescapes.com/ breakingawayadventures.com/misfits-rally-vol-3 motorcyclesandmisfits.com/shop

Föreställ dig en plats där storstadens pulserande hjärta möter den stilla rytmen av glittrande vatten. Där himlen känns närmare och luften är klarare. Välkommen till Marievik – Stockholms nya epicentrum för liv, arbete och inspiration. Här, vid Årstavikens spegelblanka vatten och bara ett stenkast från Hornstull, tar en vision form som inte bara förändrar stadsbilden, utan utmanar själva fundamentet för hur vi bygger, lever och arbetar. Detta är inte bara ett stadsutvecklingsprojekt. Det är AMF:s största satsning någonsin – och de tänker omdefiniera spelreglerna. De vänder upp och ner på byggbranschens traditioner, raserar förlegade föreställningar om hur en ny stadsdel föds, och ställer de gamla sanningarna om miljöpåverkan på ända. Här suddas gränserna ut mellan arbetsliv och privatliv, och tanken om att Stockholm är en stillsam och återhållsam stad utmanas på allvar. Visionen för Marievik är lika djärv som den är inspirerande: att ge dig det bästa av två världar. Föreställ dig storstadens livfulla energi, kulturella dynamik och gastronomiska äventyr, vackert inramat av naturens stillhet och vattnets speglingar. Här smälter arbete och fritid samman, där kreativitet får blomstra sida vid sida med lugna pauser vid kajkanten. När denna vision blir verklighet kommer Marievik att vara mer än en plats – det blir en destination där balansen mellan karriär och liv inte bara är möjlig, utan självklar. En stadsdel där idéer föds, relationer växer och livet levs fullt ut. Marievik. Där framtiden tar form – och där du är en del av den. Idag har vi äran att välkomna Johan Lindskog, Projektutvecklingschef på AMF Fastigheter och dirigenten bakom detta viktiga kapitel i Stockholms utveckling. Johan är en passionerad förespråkare för hållbar stadsutveckling och har spelat en avgörande roll i att forma Marievik till den dynamiska destination det håller på att bli.

Canada's corporate governance landscape presents unique features for global board leaders and investors. The provincial regulation of securities, exemplified by bodies like the OSC and AMF, distinguishes it from other markets. Crown corporations, like Canada Post, navigate a dual mandate of commercial viability and public service. Canadian governance also embraces distinct board structures, including the acceptance of dual-class shares, and emphasizes a broader stakeholder model that incorporates environmental, Indigenous, and social factors. The Toronto Stock Exchange actively promotes ESG reporting through resources and training, including specific guidance on climate-related disclosures.ESG Courses at http://www.boardroomeducation.com Main Website www.Globalboardadvisors.com

Ding, Ding, Ding, eine neue fulminante Runde ALLES MÖGLICHE FIGHTS steht an! Format-Urgestein Florentin Will, der verlorene Sohn Donnie O'Sullivan und GAME TWO-Chef Tim Heinke geben sich die Ehre und duellieren sich in drei ausgefuchsten Fragen und einem Pitch-Auftrag. Die Punkte verteilt wie immer ihr, liebe Community, für die Person, welche den eigenen Pick in den jeweiligen Runden am besten zu verargumentieren weiß. Wer kennt den besten Brotaufstrich? Wer entlarvt die blödesten Metaphern des Gegenüber? Und warum hat Donnie ein Schwert dabei? Das und mehr jetzt und hier. Seid ihr ready to rumble?

Marie-Anne Barbat-Layani, présidente de l'Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), était l'invitée de l'émission Ecorama du 14 février 2025, présentée par David Jacquot sur Boursorama.com. Parmi les sujets abordés : le goût du risque des jeunes investisseurs, l'explosion massive des arnaques, l'engouement pour les cryptos et la création d'un produit d'épargne européen. Hébergé par Audion. Visitez https://www.audion.fm/fr/privacy-policy pour plus d'informations.

SCR NEXTSTAGE CROISSANCE géré par NextStage AM. Société de Gestion de Portefeuille agréée ​par l'Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) sous le numéro GP02012​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​. AMF – 17 Place de la Bourse, 75002 Paris – https://www.amf-france.org/ SAS au capital de 253 010 euros enregistrée au Registre du Commerce et des Sociétés (RCS) de Paris sous le numéro 442 666 830. TVA intracommunautaire : FR80442666830. 19 avenue George V, 75008 Paris. Les supports non cotés permettent d'investir dans des entreprises ou des projets qui ne sont pas soumis aux fluctuations des marchés financiers et présentent un risque de perte en capital. Les performances passées ne préjugent pas des performances futures. Vie Plus, filière commerciale de Suravenir dédiée aux CGP et courtiers : Tour Trinity – 1 Bis place de la Défense, 92400 Courbevoie. Suravenir, société anonyme à directoire et conseil de surveillance au capital entièrement libéré de 1 235 000 000 €. Siège social : 232, rue Général Paulet - BP 103 - 29802 Brest Cedex 9. Société mixte régie par le code des assurances. SIREN 330 033 127 RCS Brest. Société soumise au contrôle de l'Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (4, place de Budapest – CS 92459 – 75436 Paris cedex 9) Document publicitaire dépourvu de valeur contractuelle Pour en savoir plus sur les engagements des sociétés, consultez leur site internet ou référez-vous à la brochure gamme Tremplin. Retrouvez les informations publiées en application du règlement européen dit « SFDR » : reglementaire-priips.suravenir.fr

Jarden's head of commodities comments on reversal in fortunes with last night's 1.4% increase in the GDT auction mirroring the fall in the first auction of the new calendar year (WMP 5%, SMP 2%, AMF -7.8%, Butter 2.2%, and Cheese 2.8%). Does this lock in Fonterra's $10 milk price? Which is where the futures market is currently sitting. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Vivek Joshi interviews Shari Litow, the Director of Aftermarket and Services at AMF Bakery Systems. Shari shares her journey from the chemicals industry to capital equipment, discussing her role in enhancing customer experience and service innovations. She emphasizes the importance of building a digital experience, managing change effectively, and the challenges of finding and training talent in a rapidly evolving workforce. Shari also highlights the significance of operational excellence in driving growth and offers valuable lessons for new leaders in the industry.Takeaways:Shari Litow is the Director of Aftermarket and Services at AMF Bakery Systems.AMF focuses on capital equipment for the baking industry.Shari's role includes parts management, technical documentation, and customer service.Transitioning from chemicals to capital equipment involved significant learning.Customer experience is central to AMF's strategy.Building a digital experience is crucial for customer engagement.Change management requires involving employees in the process.The industry faces challenges in finding skilled labor.Operational excellence can drive growth in aftermarket services.Surrounding yourself with knowledgeable people is key to success.

Jeudi 21 novembre 2024, SMART TECH reçoit Michel Sauvade (maire de Marsac en Livradois et co-président de la commission numérique, AMF) , Angélique Gérard (présidente fondatrice, STEM ACADEMY) , Gérard Haas (avocat et Coprésident de l'association, "Les Jurisnautes") et Alain Garnier (Président, Jamespot)-----------------------------------------------------------------------SMART TECH - Le magazine quotidien de l'innovationDans SMART TECH, l'actu du numérique et de l'innovation prend tout son sens. Chaque jour, des spécialistes décryptent les actualités, les tendances, et les enjeux soulevés par l'adoption des nouvelles technologies.

Summary The written word dominates EA discourse but visuals have a unique power in communicating ideas that seems quite underleveraged in this community. As a designer and communicator in the space, I wanted to share some of the presentations and visualizations I've created over the years in hopes that they might be helpful to others. My goal isn't to present these visuals as "ready-to-use" resources—for various reasons they're not ready (see disclaimers)—but rather as references that hopefully inspire others to create and invest in visual forms of communication. Effective Giving 101 (2023) In 2023, when I was director of design at Giving What We Can, we were invited to give a talk at Microsoft about effective giving. We normally don't dive so deep into the research that undergirds our recommendations but—given the highly-educated, highly-analytical audience at Microsoft—I thought it could be compelling to actually get into the weeds and [...] ---Outline:(00:16) Summary(00:50) Effective Giving 101 (2023)(01:53) Full deck: Doing Good Better (Microsoft 2023)(02:00) GiveWell's 2020 analysis of AMF(02:58) Slides: GiveWell's 2020 analysis of AMF(03:15) Global income illustration(04:53) Slides: The Global Income Distribution(05:09) Prioritization in GCR (2024)(05:56) Parfit's 99% extinction hypothetical(06:56) Slides: Parfit's 99% v 100%(07:13) Mapping the GCR landscape(08:54) Slides: Visualizing: The GCR Landscape(09:13) Bonus: Effective Giving Strategy Frameworks(10:20) Vision to Vectors(10:23) Slides: Vision to Vectors(10:39) The Pledger Journey(10:42) Slides: The Pledger JourneyThe original text contained 8 images which were described by AI. --- First published: October 31st, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/GuFxEPcn7rzz4pDhw/visualizing-ea-ideas --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

Une sélection des actualités du jour qui ont un impact direct ou indirect sur vos finances personnelles. Avec : Charlotte Thameur, directrice du développement offre BtoB chez Shares.io, et Julie Cohen, journaliste BFM Business.

Fonterra's head of cooperative affairs reviews another positive GDT auction; up 0.8%. WMP +1.5%, SMP +2.2%, AMF -1.2%, Butter -1.7%, and Cheese +2.9%. Plus, today Fonterra announced a further $150m investment earmarked for a new cool store at its Whareroa site in Taranaki, following recent investments in Edendale ($150m) and Studholme ($75m). All up -  $375m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

L'obtention des agréments et autorisations pour travailler est fondamentale dans le secteur de la crypto. Le cadre réglementaire crypto en France est-il trop contraignant ? Anne-Marie Chalane, avocate associée du cabinet Florence de Gaulle et ancienne directrice juridique de l'AMF, répond à cette question. Elle explique comment la réglementation des actifs numériques a été mise en place en France, notamment avec la loi Pacte et l'agrément EME. Elle évoque également le dossier Circle, qui a obtenu l'agrément pour émettre le stablecoin USDC en France. Enfin, elle aborde les enjeux de la réglementation dans le secteur de la crypto et la concurrence déloyale. Obtenir ces agréments peut prendre plusieurs mois et conduire à une concentration du marché. La DeFi n'est pas encore réglementée, mais des réflexions sont en cours pour l'inclure dans la réglementation. La convergence entre les actifs numériques et la finance traditionnelle est une tendance majeure, avec des acteurs de la crypto se développant vers la finance traditionnelle et des acteurs traditionnels s'intéressant à la blockchain. La tokenisation des actifs réels offre de nouvelles opportunités de liquidité et d'investissement. Le régime pilote permet de tokeniser des actions et des obligations, créant ainsi un marché secondaire liquide. 00:00 Le cadre réglementaire crypto en France : trop contraignant ? 06:29 Le dossier Circle : obtention de l'agrément pour émettre l'USDC 11:21 Les enjeux de la réglementation dans le secteur de la crypto 17:40 La concurrence déloyale dans le secteur de la crypto 22:37 La réglementation des actifs numériques pour lutter contre le blanchiment d'argent 23:34 Les exigences strictes pour obtenir l'agrément MICA 26:38 La concentration du marché suite aux exigences réglementaires 32:02 La DeFi en attente de réglementation 36:33 La convergence entre les actifs numériques et la finance traditionnelle 41:18 La tokenisation des actifs réels pour une meilleure liquidité 42:17 Le régime pilote pour créer un marché secondaire liquide

05th Aug: Crypto & Coffee at 8

Mateus Rossato conversa com Amanda Ruviaro, coordenadora e professora do Curso de Gastronomia da AMF e Francesca Lopresti, chef do Restaurante Colibri.

Quotes“There is a producer who said, and it's kinda cruel, but they were like, "Remember when Mrs. Miler was dying for like 18 episodes and every episode was saying she was going to die this week and then she said no and kept living. Like what do we do?'" (15:51-16:03 | Christi)“You know I wouldn't know what an AMF is. I never even knew what LOL was until recently.” (21:54-22:00 | Kelly)“'I might just be allergic to something. You're allergic to Dance Moms. It's not your comfort show it's your trigger." (43:08-43:13 | Christi & Kelly)“Nevermind. I was going to say she's so nervy, but I'm about to be a giant bitch coming up so nevermind." (1:13:40-1:13:52 | Christi)LinksSubscribe to us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC50aSBAYXH_9yU2YkKyXZ0w Subscribe to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/backtothebarreThank you to Ashley Jana for allowing us to use Electricity!! Follow her on IG HERE: https://instagram.com/ashleyjanamusic?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=Download Electricity HERE: https://music.apple.com/us/album/electricity/1497482509?i=1497482510Follow Christi on IG: www.instagram.com/christilukasiakFollow Kelly on IG: www.instagram.com/kellylhyland Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why should we consider slowing AI development? Could we slow down AI development even if we wanted to? What is a "minimum viable x-risk"? What are some of the more plausible, less Hollywood-esque risks from AI? Even if an AI could destroy us all, why would it want to do so? What are some analogous cases where we slowed the development of a specific technology? And how did they turn out? What are some reasonable, feasible regulations that could be implemented to slow AI development? If an AI becomes smarter than humans, wouldn't it also be wiser than humans and therefore more likely to know what we need and want and less likely to destroy us? Is it easier to control a more intelligent AI or a less intelligent one? Why do we struggle so much to define utopia? What can the average person do to encourage safe and ethical development of AI?Kat Woods is a serial charity entrepreneur who's founded four effective altruist charities. She runs Nonlinear, an AI safety charity. Prior to starting Nonlinear, she co-founded Charity Entrepreneurship, a charity incubator that has launched dozens of charities in global poverty and animal rights. Prior to that, she co-founded Charity Science Health, which helped vaccinate 200,000+ children in India, and, according to GiveWell's estimates at the time, was similarly cost-effective to AMF. You can follow her on Twitter at @kat__woods; you can read her EA writing here and here; and you can read her personal blog here.Further reading:Robert Miles AI Safety @ YouTube"The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence", by Tim UrbanUncontrollable: The Threat of Artificial Superintelligence and the Race to Save the World, by Darren McKeeThe Nonlinear NetworkPauseAIDan Hendrycks @ Manifund (AI regrantor)Adam Gleave @ Manifund (AI regrantor)StaffSpencer Greenberg — Host / DirectorJosh Castle — ProducerRyan Kessler — Audio EngineerUri Bram — FactotumMusicBroke for FreeJosh WoodwardLee RosevereQuiet Music for Tiny Robotswowamusiczapsplat.comAffiliatesClearer ThinkingGuidedTrackMind EasePositlyUpLift[Read more]

Fonterra's Head of Co-op Affairs reviews last night's plummeting GDT Auction (down 6.9%) with WMP -4.3%, SMP -6.1%, AMF -10.7%, Butter -10.2%, BMP -5.1% and Cheese -6.9% See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dans un contexte économique où 57% des entreprises peinent à obtenir des financements bancaires pour financer leur BFR ou leurs projets courts termes, KARMEN se positionne à l'instar d'UNLIMITD, ou encore SILVR comme une solution pour les petites et moyennes entreprises (PME). Cette fintech française, vient d'annoncer la mobilisation d'une ligne de crédit de 100 millions d'euros auprès de Fasanara Capital qui s'ajoute au 70 millions d'euros mobilisés en 2022 auprès du même financeur. Cet apport financier, logé dans un fonds spécifique agréé AMF, permettra à Karmen de renforcer et de diversifier ses offres.Ainsi Karmen va lancer Karmen Factor, une solution d'affacturage, et étendre ses opérations en Belgique et dans le reste de l'Europe du Sud. La fintech ambitionne également d'intégrer ses solutions dans d'autres plateformes digitales, notamment les marketplaces e-commerce et les logiciels de facturation.Pour en savoir plus, Gabriel Thierry, CEO et cofondateur de Karmen, répond à nos questions. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/frenchweb-business--3299227/support.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: I doubled the world record cycling without hands for AMF, published by Vincent van der Holst on June 11, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. A couple weeks ago I announced I was going to try and break the world record cycling without hands for AMF. That post also explains why I wanted to break that record. Last Friday we broke that record and raised nearly €10.000 for AMF. Here's what happened on friday. You can still donate here. What was the old record? Canadian Robert John Murray rode the old record of 130.29 kilometers in 5:37 hours in Calgary on June 12, 2023. His average speed was 23.2 kilometers per hour. See here the Guinness World Records page. I managed to double the record and these were my stats. How did the record attempt itself go? On Friday, June 7, I started the record attempt on the closed cycling course of WV Amsterdam just after 6 am. I got up at half past four and immediately drank a large cup of coffee so that I could leave number 2 in the toilet. After all, that is not possible on a bicycle without using your hands, or at least that was not the record I was trying to break. At 6 o'clock we did the last checks. Are the tires pumped? Is the bicycle in the right gear? After all, you can no longer switch gears during the attempt. Is the GoPro on my chest turned on? Stopwatches on? Guinness World Records forms ready and completed? There was virtually no wind early in the morning, which was also the reason I started so early. Later in the day it would be windier and I knew from the training that with too much wind the balance becomes very difficult. These are laps of 2.5 kilometers, and after 52 laps the current record of 130 kilometers would have been broken. The course is flat, but has one bridge, where you have to climb quite a bit. Because you can't shift gears, you have to go at a good speed to keep enough balance when you get to the top. The advantage is that when descending from the bridge I was able to stand on the pedals without hands, so that my butt could get off the saddle for a while during each lap. And it gave me the chance to pee off the bike. The question is of course: how do you pee on a bicycle without hands? So when I wanted to pee, I picked up speed, stood on the pedals with my right arm resting on the saddle, and then peed straight over my bike with my left hand. Not super hygienic, but better than peeing in my pants, and I could always clean my frame with the water from my water bottles. My first goal was 100 kilometers, anything below that would have been a complete disappointment. But at almost 90 kilometers I almost touched my handlebars out of habit. At that moment I would never have started again because it would never be possible to cycle another 130 kilometers without hands after those 90 kilometers. At least, that's what I thought, because eventually I would double the old record and cycle another 170 kilometers after those 90 kilometers. But at that point the record attempt was almost over. In the end, apart from rabbits and angry goose mothers getting close to my wheels, I managed to get through the 100 kilometers smoothly. My next goal was the record: 130 kilometers. I started to get quite a bit of cramping, but I had a group of great volunteers who passed me food and water, and they gave me water bottles with lots of salt and minerals in them. I also drove relatively fast at 27.5 kilometers per hour, and then I decided to drive one kilometer per hour slower. That helped, and I broke the record without any problems, and then the question was how far I could go. A question that I expected my ass to answer. During training I often quickly developed serious saddle pain. However, I had found a sustainable clothing sponsor and the bib shorts from Velor which I had only had for a week, made my butt really hurt much less t...

A couple weeks ago I announced I was going to try and break the world record cycling without hands for AMF. That post also explains why I wanted to break that record. Last Friday we broke that record and raised nearly €10.000 for AMF. Here's what happened on friday. You can still donate here. What was the old record? Canadian Robert John Murray rode the old record of 130.29 kilometers in 5:37 hours in Calgary on June 12, 2023. His average speed was 23.2 kilometers per hour. See here the Guinness World Records page. I managed to double the record and these were my stats. How did the record attempt itself go? On Friday, June 7, I started the record attempt on the closed cycling course of WV Amsterdam just after 6 am. I got up at half past four and immediately drank a [...] --- First published: June 11th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/5ru7nEtC6mufuBXbk/i-doubled-the-world-record-cycling-without-hands-for-amf --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Introducing Ansh: A Charity Entrepreneurship Incubated Charity, published by Supriya on May 29, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Executive Summary Ansh, a 1-year-old Charity Entrepreneurship incubated charity, has been delivering an evidence-based, scientifically proven intervention called Kangaroo Care to low birth weight and premature babies in 2 government hospitals in India since January 2024. Ansh estimates that their programs are saving, on average, 4 lives a month per facility and a total of 98 lives per year. The cost of one life saved is approximately $2077 (current costs, not a potential estimate). Ansh is now replicating the programs in two additional hospitals, doubling their impact before the end of this year. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), neonatal conditions[1] are among the top 10 causes of death worldwide[2]. This makes neonatal mortality one of the largest-scale causes of suffering and death today. In 2022, 2.3 million babies died in the first 28 days of life (i.e. the newborn/neonatal period) (World Health Organisation, 2024). Let's compare that number to one of EA's other top cause areas. In 2022, 608,000 people died of malaria, which is about 26.4% lower than neonatal conditions. However, we have a cost-effective, scalable model for preventing malaria-caused death (e.g., with AMF and Malaria Consortium). Unfortunately, there has been no equivalently cost-effective and scalable model for preventing neonatal mortality. In this post, we will introduce Ansh, a 1-year-old Charity Entrepreneurship incubated charity that is working towards building tractable, scalable solutions to neonatal mortality in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). 81% of neonatal deaths happen in low and Low-Middle SDI countries. The disparities in mortality rates between low and high-resource contexts suggest that most neonatal deaths are preventable. In the sections below, we will first introduce Ansh and its mission statement, share our results thus far, and then introduce some of our plans for how to increase our reach and impact over the next few years. We are very excited to share the work we've done so far with the EA community, and to hear your constructive feedback on how we can make our non-profit even more impactful! I. The Problem and Solution More than half of all neonatal deaths occur within the first three days after birth (Dol J, 2021) and over 75% in the first week of life (WHO, 2024), making it imperative to reach babies as soon after birth as possible. Moreover, low birth weight (LBW)[3] is considered the number one mortality risk factor for children under 5. In fact, according to the Global Burden of Disease, around 89% of all newborn deaths in India (the country where about 22% of all newborn deaths in the world occur) happen to LBW and preterm newborns. Further, 81% of all newborn deaths occur in Low or Low-Middle SDI countries (Global Burden of Disease Collaborative Network, 2019). Hence, the most effective path toward reducing neonatal mortality rates globally lies in developing interventions aimed at helping LBW babies during their first week of life in LMIC contexts. Thankfully, such an intervention exists: Kangaroo Care. Kangaroo Care (KC) needs neither fancy equipment nor expensive technology - the methods of KC are both simple and highly effective, especially for LBW newborns. KC requires early, continuous, and prolonged skin-to-skin contact between the mother (or another caregiver) and the baby for about 8 hours of contact per day-paired with exclusive breastfeeding and close monitoring of the baby. This is often assisted with a cloth binder, between the LBW newborn and caregiver (preferably the mother), to allow for mobility. Estimates from the 2016 Cochrane review suggest that KC can reduce LBW neonates' chance of (i) ...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: I'm attempting a world record to raise money for AMF, published by Vincent van der Holst on May 20, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. TL;DR It's time for an absurd challenge. On June 7th around 11:00, I'm going to (try to) break the world record for cycling without hands! For more than 100km, I am raising money for the The Against Malaria Foundation (100% donated, costs covered by my company and myself) with the help of The Life You Can Save. Pledge your donation per kilometer or fixed amount here (tax deductibility possible in most countries, email me on vin@boas.co). The full story I'm Vin from Amsterdam, and I'm doing a world record attempt for cycling without hands for charity on the 7th of June. I am donating 100% to The Against Malaria Foundation, with the goal of saving at least one life (5.000 USD). You can participate and push me to go further by joining here. It's going too far to say that my bike saved my life, but at least it made me want to live. I had a pretty bad anxiety disorder about 7 years ago and also became depressed as a result. My father then gave me his old road bike, and that was a golden combination for me. Exercising burned the adrenaline from my anxiety disorder, made me healthier, made me sleep better, and because I slept better and was healthier I started cycling harder and farther, and I regained goals in my life. Often I cycled with my father and best friend, which allowed me to vent my thoughts, and the bike took me to beautiful places all over the world. Soon I was no longer depressed and my anxiety disorder also almost completely disappeared after a few years. I'm good at cycling without hands because as a kid I used to bike to soccer without hands, where it was always a challenge to get through the turns without touching my handlebars. Eventually I found out I was better at cycling than playing soccer, and cycling became my hobby. So that started with cycling to get mentally healthy, and has gotten way out of hand over the past 7 years. In my first year of cycling my longest ride was 60KM, the year after that I rode 100, the year after that 200, the year after that 300, and last year I rode the 535 kilometers from Amsterdam to Paris with 3 other idiots in one day (on my birthday no less). I have less time now because of the startup BOAS I run (which donates 90% of profit to save lives, by donating to the most effective global health charities like AMF), and 600 kilometers is really too far for me, but I always like to have a cycling goal. And then I saw a list of cycling records that included one that I think I could break: the world record for cycling without hands. And not entirely impractical, I can train at my desk at home without hands, or do my calls on my bike and combine work and training that way. As a child, I spent hours in the library browsing through the Guinness Book of World Records, so it is a dream for me to be in it someday, so I had a new goal! Since my anxiety disorder and depression, I have found that a simple life is a good life, and that I'm happier when I help others. A simple life does not have to be expensive, and so why should I keep more money than I need to be healthy and happy? Especially if that money also allows me to help others, something that makes me even happier. So the company I started donates 90% of its profits to save lives, and if I can also raise money to save lives with my record attempt, why wouldn't I? It's important to me that if I have money to donate, that I try to do as much good with it as possible. I found out that 600,000 young people die every year from Malaria, even though it is preventable and curable. It bothers me that we haven't solved that in a world where a fraction of the wealth we have can save almost all those lives. Children didn't choose a world where we don't sh...

We're talking about Google's layoffs and how it affects Flutter and Dart, then AMD is working to push AMF code into FFMPEG, and it's time for Open Source to grow up. RHEL has an AI offering, NVidia is suggesting Open Source kernel drivers, and Zed is coming to Linux. Then there's Pi Connect pulling a Sherlock, KDE working on color management, and a bit of a history lesson on where we came from. For tips, we have the Radion TUI radio player, || : to ignore errors in a script, the Mixxx DJ app for all those underground raves, and PanWriter for markup editing. You can catch the show notes at https://bit.ly/3UTCJ5C, and we'll see you next time! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell, David Ruggles, and Jeff Massie Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Today is World Malaria Day (April 25), published by tobytrem on April 25, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Malaria is massive. Our World in Data writes: "Over half a million people died from the disease each year in the 2010s. Most were children, and the disease is one of the leading causes of child mortality." Or, as Rob Mather, CEO of the Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) phrases it: the equivalent of seven jumbo jets full of children die of Malaria each day. But I don't see malaria in the news that much. This is partly because it was eradicated from Western countries over the course of the 20th century, both because of intentional interventions such as insecticide, and because of the draining of swamp lands and building of better housing. But it's also because malaria is a slow catastrophe, like poverty, and climate change. We've dealt with it to varying degrees throughout history, and though it is an emergency to anyone affected by it, to the rest of us, it's a tropical disease which has been around forever. It can be hard to generate urgency when a problem has existed for so long. But there is a lot that we can do. Highly effective charities work on malaria; the Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) distributes insecticide treated bed-nets, and a Malaria Consortium program offers seasonal malaria chemoprevention treatment- both are GiveWell Top Charities. Two malaria vaccines, RTS,S and the cheaper R21[1], have been developed in recent years[2]. Malaria is preventable. Though malaria control and eradication is funded by international bodies such as The Global Fund, there isn't nearly enough money being spent on it. AMF has an immediate funding gap of $185.78m. That's money for nets they know are needed. And though vaccines are being rolled out, progress has been slower than it could be, and the agencies distributing them have been criticised for lacking urgency. Malaria is important, malaria is neglected, malaria is tractable. If you want to do something about malaria today, consider donating to Givewell's recommendations: AMF, or the Malaria Consortium: Related links I recommend Why we didn't get a malaria vaccine sooner; an article in Works in Progress. WHO's World Malaria Day 2024 announcement. The Our World in Data page on malaria. Audio AMA, with Rob Mather, CEO of AMF (transcript). From SoGive, an EA Forum discussion of the cost-effectiveness of malaria vaccines, with cameos from 1DaySooner and GiveWell. For more info, see GiveWell's page on malaria vaccines. The story of Tu Youyou, a researcher who helped develop an anti-malarial drug in Mao's China. What is an Emergency? The Case for Rapid Malaria Vaccination, from Marginal Revolution. More content on the Forum's Malaria tag. ^ R21 offers up to 75% reduction of symptomatic malaria cases when delivered at the right schedule. ^ Supported by Open Philanthropy and GiveWell. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org

Mario from Veloce Motorsport joins us to talk about the 2024 AMF and his experience taking care of an iconic Ferrari 250 LM.Check out our Instagram @mickandoriCheck out our YouTube channelSend us an email at mickandori@gmail.comCheck out the Mick and Ori website

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Ashamed of wealth, published by Neil Warren on March 17, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. tl;dr: I feel ashamed of being born into wealth. Upon analysis, I don't think that's justified. I should be taking advantage of my wealth, not wallowing in how ashamed I am to have it. I'm a high school student in France. I was born into a wealthy family by most of my classmates' (and of course the world)'s standards. In France, there's a strong social incentive to openly criticize wealth of any kind and view people richer than oneself with a particular kind of disdain and resentment. I imagine a majority of people reading this are from Silicon Valley, which has a radically different view on wealth. (I grew up in Mountain View, then moved to France at age 12. The cultural differences are striking!) I'm rich, and it would be foolish to deny that I feel ashamed of this on some level. Friends will mention how rich I am or talk about how expensive eg university is and I will attempt to downplay my wealth, even if it means lying a little (I am not proud of this). I notice myself latching onto any opportunity to complain about the price of something. "Ah yes the inflation, bad isn't it (ski trip will cost a little more this year I guess)." This feeling of guilty wealth got worse when I learned how cheap mosquito nets were. Since dabbling in effective altruism, I started noticing the price of things a lot more than I used to.[1] I became sensitive to how my family would spend things and would subtly put us on a better track, like by skipping desserts or drinks at expensive restaurants. My parents continually assure me that they have enough money put aside to pay for any university I get into. They would be irate if I intentionally chose a relatively cheap university for the sake of cheapness. I'm going to find this warning hard to heed given how much money we're talking about. So my guilt translates into a heightened price sensitivity. But is this guilt justified at all? The subagent inside me in charge of social incentives tells me I should be ashamed of being rich. The subagent inside me in charge of being sane tells me I should be careful what I wish for. If being rich is bad, then that implies being less rich is better, no? No? Stephen Fry once noted that in all things, we think we're in the Goldilocks zone. Anyone smarter than us is an overly intellectual bookworm; anyone stupider is a fool. Anyone richer than us is a snobby bourgeois; anyone poorer is a member of the (ew) lower class. But that's stupid. If I could slide my IQ up a few points, of course I would. If I could have been born richer, I would have. I should try not to have that disdain for those richer than oneself which society endorses. Sometimes, my gut pities this kid in my class who has an expensive watch and drives a scooter to school from his mansion one block away because it makes him feel cool. He's a spoiled brat in most senses of the word, which is reason to pity him. But my gut pities his wealth. Yet, if I could pick to have his wealth I would unquestionably do so, even when that is not the socially approved response. More money is more good: that's a simple equation I can get behind. Were my parents a little richer, it might be 100 euros a month going to AMF instead of 50. [2] One should be wary of learning the long lessons from spoiled brats. Another reason not to feel ashamed at being rich is that it's not my money. I didn't choose to be born rich. My parents are the ones deciding what to do with it. This doesn't absolve me of all responsibility: whatever uncomfortable and terribly cliched[3] conversation I could have with them tonight in order to get them to spend more on mosquito nets is a small price compared to that paid by children infected with malaria. I have a disproportionate amount of influ...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Hire the CEA Online team for software development & consulting, published by Will Howard on March 14, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. TL;DR: We are offering (paid) software consulting and contracting services to impactful projects. If you think we might be a good fit for your project please fill in the form here and we'll get back to you within a couple of days. The CEA Online team has recently taken on a few (3) projects for external organisations, in addition to our usual work which consists of developing the EA Forum[1]. We think these external projects have gone well, so we're trying out offering these services publicly. We are mainly[2] looking to help with projects that we think have a large potential for impact. As we're in the early stages of exploring this we are quite open in the sorts of projects we would consider, but just to give you some concrete ideas: Building a website that is more than a simple landing page. Think of the AMF website, which in spite of its deceptive appearance actually makes a lot of data available in a very transparent way. Or the Rethink Priorities Cross-Cause Cost-Effectiveness Model. Building an internal tool to streamline some common process in your organisation. Building a web platform that requires handling user data. E.g. a site that matches volunteers with relevant tasks. Or, if you can imagine it, some kind of web forum. If you have a project where you're not sure if we'd be a good fit, please do reach out to us anyway. You will be providing a service to us just by telling us about it, as we want to understand what the needs in the community are. We might also be able to point you in the right direction or set you up with another contractor even if we aren't suitable ourselves. In the projects we have completed so far, the thing that has been suggestive of this work being very worthwhile is that in most cases the project would have progressed much more slowly without us, or potentially not happened at all. This was either due to the people involved already having too many demands on their time, or having run into problems with their existing development process. We're excited to do more in the hope that having this available as a reliable service will push people to do software-dependent projects that they wouldn't have done otherwise, or execute them to a higher quality (and faster). What we could do for you We're open to anything from "high-level consulting" to "taking on a project entirely". In the "high-level consulting" case we would do some initial setup and give you advice on how to proceed, so you could then take over the project or continue with other contractors (who we might be able to set you up with). In the "taking on a project entirely" case we would be the contractors and would write all the code. The projects we have done so far have been more on the taking-on-entirely end of the spectrum. We also have an excellent designer, Agnes (@agnestenlund), and the capacity[3] to do product development work, such as conducting user interviews to gather requirements and then designing a solution based on those. This might be especially valuable if you have a lot of demands on your time and want to be able to hand off a project to a safe pair of hands. As mentioned above, we are hoping to help with projects that are high-impact, so we'll decide what to work on based on our fit for the project, as well the financial and impact cases. As such, these are some characteristics that make a project more likely to be a good fit (non-exhaustive): Being motivated by EA principles and/or heavily embedded in the EA ecosystem. Cases where your organisation is at low capacity, such that you have projects that you think would be valuable to do but don't have the time to commit to yourselves. Cases where we can help you navigate...

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In this episode of How I Grew This, Benjamin Chemla, CEO and Co-founder of Shares, joins Mada Seghete to share practical insights for anyone interested in entrepreneurship, trading, and the startup ecosystem. They dive into the success story of the Shares platform, the differences between the startup ecosystem in Europe and the US, and the importance of attracting a supportive and committed initial user base when launching your product. Benjamin is a seasoned French serial entrepreneur and AMF-certified business angel with a remarkable track record of building cohesive teams and companies from scratch and rapidly scaling them across Europe and the US for over a decade. One of his notable ventures was the on-demand delivery platform Stuart, which secured an impressive €22 million in funding before its official launch. Eventually, the company's outstanding growth attracted the attention of La Poste, leading to its acquisition.

#156: Professor Tim Bowles of UC Berkeley's Agroecology Lab introduces us to some interesting players in the soil, including arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and how they may interact with plant roots, drought, and fertilizers.  Dr. Tim Bowles is an Assistant Professor of Agroecology and Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley.https://nature.berkeley.edu/agroecologylab/ To watch a video version of this podcast with access to the full transcript and links relevant to our conversation, please visit:https://realorganicproject.org/tim-bowles-digging-into-rhizosphere-episode-one-hundred-fifty-sixThe Real Organic Podcast is hosted by Dave Chapman and Linley Dixon, engineered by Brandon StCyr, and edited and produced by Jenny Prince.The Real Organic Project is a farmer-led movement working towards certifying 1,000 farms across the United States this year. Our add-on food label distinguishes soil-grown fruits and vegetables from hydroponically-raised produce, and pasture-raised meat, milk, and eggs from products harvested from animals in horrific confinement (CAFOs - confined animal feeding operations).To find a Real Organic farm near you, please visit:https://www.realorganicproject.org/farmsWe believe that the organic standards, with their focus on soil health, biodiversity, and animal welfare were written as they should be, but that the current lack of enforcement of those standards is jeopardizing the ability for small farms who adhere to the law to stay in business. The lack of enforcement is also jeopardizing the overall health of the customers who support the organic movement; customers who are not getting what they pay for at market but still paying a premium price. And the lack of enforcement is jeopardizing the very cycles (water, air, nutrients) that Earth relies upon to provide us all with a place to live, by pushing extractive, chemical agriculture to the forefront.If you like what you hear and are feeling inspired, we would love for you to join our movement by becoming one of our 1,000  Real Friends:https://www.realorganicproject.org/real-organic-friends/To read our weekly newsletter (which might just be the most forwarded newsletter on the internet!) and get firsthand news about what's happening with organic food, farming and policy, please subscribe here:https://www.realorganicproject.org/email/

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Project for Awesome 2024: Make a short video for an EA charity!, published by EA ProjectForAwesome on January 31, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Project for Awesome (P4A) is a charitable initiative running February 16th-18th this year (2024), and videos must be submitted by 11:59am EST on Tuesday, February 13th. This is a good opportunity to raise money for EA charities and promote EA and EA charities to a wider audience. In the last years, winning charities got between $14,000 and $38,000 each. Videos don't need to be professional! In short, People make short 1-4 min videos supporting charities, upload them on Youtube and submit them to the P4A website by 11:59am EST on Tuesday, February 13th. The videos must be new videos specifically for this year's P4A and should mention P4A. People vote on the videos on the weekend, February 16th-18th. Money raised during the Project for Awesome is split, with 50% going to Save the Children and Partners in Health, and 50% going to charities voted on by the community. One more video for a charity lets everyone vote one more time for that charity. This year, we want to support seven EA charities: Against Malaria Foundation, GiveDirectly, The Humane League, Good Food Institute, ProVeg International, GiveWell and Fish Welfare Initiative. Please consider making a short video for one (or more) of these charities! You will help us to coordinate if you sign up here. Please join the Facebook group, EA Project 4 Awesome 2024! In 2017, we secured a $50,000 donation for AMF, GiveDirectly and SENS. In 2018 GiveDirectly, The Good Food Institute and AMF all received $25,000. In 2020, seven out of eight of the charities we coordinated around have won ~$27,000 each, for a total that year of ~$189,700! In 2022, 3 out of 11 supported charities won. Last year, The Good Food Institute got ~$37,000. Here are some resources: Project for Awesome website A document with infos, resources and instructions http://www.projectforawesome.com/graphics How to Make a P4A video in 20 Minutes or Less Slides for a P4A video planning event from 2021 Video guidelines from the P4A FAQ: Your video must be made specifically for this year's P4A. So, you must mention Project for Awesome in the video itself, and it should have been created recently. You should put reasonable effort into making sure any information you include in your video is accurate, from anecdotal examples to statistics. There's a lot of misinformation on the internet, so we want to make sure that P4A videos are providing thoughtful, accurate context about the work that organizations are doing in the world. Try not to make your video too long. People are going to be watching a ton of videos during P4A, and no one wants to sit through a rambly, unedited vlog for ten minutes. Keep your video short and to the point so that people will watch the whole thing and learn all about your cause. A good length to aim for is 2-4 minutes, unless you have such compelling content that it just needs to be longer. Try not to spend too much time explaining what the Project for Awesome is. Most people watching your video will already know, so just mentioning it briefly and directing people to the website is plenty. An explanation in the description as well as a link to projectforawesome.com is also a great addition so people who stumble across your video can learn more about us. Similarly, try not to spend too much time promoting your own channel in your video. One or two sentences is fine to explain the type of videos you usually make if they're different from what you're doing for your P4A video, but much more than that and it just looks like you're using the P4A to help promote yourself, which isn't what this is all about. Please include a content warning at the beginning of your video if you're discussing sensit...

durée : 00:59:33 - Le 13/14 - par : Bruno Duvic - Nous recevons aujourd'hui Florence Portelli, Maire de Taverny, vice-présidente de la région Île-de-France et de l'Association des maires (AMF), Elle est l'autrice d'un premier livre intitulé « Franc-parler » à paraître le jeudi 18 janvier aux éditions du Cerf.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: A short comparison of starting an effective giving organization vs. founding a direct delivery charity, published by Joey on January 11, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. CE has recently started a new program to incubate Effective Giving Initiatives (EGIs). Although this is a sub-category of meta charities, I think it has some interesting and unique differences. I expect a decent percentage of people who are interested in the Effective Giving Incubation Program are also considering founding a charity unrelated to effective giving, so I wanted to write up a quick post comparing a few of the pros and cons of each - as I historically have had a chance to found both. A brief history About ten years back, I co-founded Charity Science (later renamed Charity Science Outreach) to raise money for effective charities that had extremely limited marketing and outreach. We used GiveWell and ACE recommendations, selecting AMF and THL specifically as the targets. We did several experiments, diligently keeping track of the results of our time spent and the results. After a couple of unsuccessful experiments (e.g., grant writing, which raised ~$50k in 12 FTE months), we hit some successes with peer-to-peer fundraising (e.g., supporting people donating funds for their birthdays). Depending on how aggressively you discount for counterfactuals, we raised a decent amount of money (in the several 100,000s). Although this was pretty successful, we pivoted to founding a direct charity where our comparative advantage was strongest and could bring the most impact and handed off the projects. Eight years ago, some of the same team members (and a few new ones) founded Charity Science Health. This was a direct implementation charity focused on vaccination reminders in North India. We got a GiveWell seed grant and became a reasonable-sized actor over the course of three years, reaching over a hundred thousand people with vaccination reminders at a very low cost per person (under $1). The trickiest part of this intervention was to (cost-effectively) get the right people to hear about the program, as the signup costs were about 70% of the entire program cost, and targeting was extremely important. A few interventions we tried did not work (mass media, government partnerships), and a few worked well (hospital partnerships, door-to-door surveys). This project eventually merged with Suvita after the founders left to run other projects (including Charity Entrepreneurship itself). In many ways, I feel starting an effective giving org was very useful for later starting a direct implementation charity, as many of the skills overlapped, and it was a less challenging project to get off the ground. In the rest of this post, I'd like to pull out the main takeaways that can be learned from these projects and would be cross-applicable to those considering both career options. Odds of success Founding any project carries a risk of failure. Failure in the case of an effective giving org would most commonly mean spending more than what gets raised for effective charities. Failure with a direct NGO can result in the people you are trying to help being harmed, making the stakes higher and there being more of a downside. In general, founding an Effective Giving Initiative I would expect to have higher odds of success. There are just more points of failure for a direct NGO. It could struggle with fundraising (an issue equally important in EGI) and implementation even if fundraising succeeds. In my view, this, among other factors, makes EGIs have higher odds of success than direct NGOs. Net impact The net impact is tricky to estimate, as the spread is considerable, even within pre-selected CE rounds. This also means that personal fit could overrule this factor. My current sense is that a direct charity has a higher...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: [Podcast + Transcript] AMA: Founder and CEO of AMF, Rob Mather, published by tobytrem on January 9, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This is a transcript for the AMA with Rob Mather, CEO of AMF, which I recorded live on the 19th of December. To listen to a recording of the live AMA as a podcast, follow the link above for the RSS feed, or: Use these links to listen to the podcast on Spotify, Pocketcasts, or Apple Music. Click the speaker icon above to listen to the recording without leaving this page. The questions for the AMA, which were edited and supplemented to, can be found on the original AMA post. Hosting an AMA as a live event, followed by a podcast and a transcript, is a bit of an experiment for us, so please do comment or Forum dm me with any feedback you might have. All of your (and my) questions to Rob are in bold, so you can skim them quickly. Thanks to Rob Mather for his time, and Dane Magaway for her help with this transcript. AMA with Rob Mather, recorded 19th December '23 Toby Tremlett: Welcome to this live AMA with Rob Mather, CEO of the Against Malaria Foundation. I'm Toby Tremlett, the EA Forum's content manager. If you're interested in effective altruism, you've probably heard of Rob's charity, the Against Malaria Foundation. For almost two decades, they've been doing crucial work to protect people, especially children, from malaria. To date, around 450 million people have been protected with malaria bed nets from this charity. Once all of their currently funded nets have been distributed, AMF estimates it would have prevented 185,000 deaths. And it's not just AMF saying this, they've been a GiveWell Top Charity since 2009. So to get straight into the AMA, we're going to keep the answers pretty short and snappy. I think Rob said he's going to stick to two minutes per answer. And yeah, Rob, thank you for making the time for coming along for this. Rob Mather: Pleasure. Toby Tremlett: On the theme of making the time, somebody said that they've organized two small fundraisers with AMF, and in both cases, you were incredibly proactive and helpful, taking time to immediately respond to emails and hop onto calls. They say many thanks, but a question remains, where do you find the time and which time management strategies do you use? You have two minutes of time. Rob Mather: I don't use any particular strategies, I'm afraid. I think what I would say is we certainly leverage technology here, so that a lot of the things that I perhaps would normally do as a CEO of a charity I don't do because technology takes over. And perhaps I can give a couple of examples. One of the things that we have to do as a charity is we have to file our accounts. We have to do that, in our case, in 14 countries and there are typically between 10 and 15 documents we have to prepare for each country. Lots of documents, lots of information that would normally take months of a number of people probably putting that together. And we broadly have that content all available to us within nine hours of the end of our financial year because at the end of the day, finances are just ones and zeros so we can automate the living daylights out of it. And therefore a whole series of effort that would otherwise go into admin that would take my time effectively is struck down to just a sliver of time. I think that's one element [that] allows me to put my time in [another] direction. The second thing I would say is that the structure of AMF is very streamlined. We're very focused on what we do. There is a lot of complexity in many ways around distributing nets, particularly around the operations. That's the bit that really requires an awful lot of very careful attention to make sure nets get to people. And because we have a very simple series of steps, if you like, that we go through when we'r...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Malaria vaccines: how confident are we?, published by Sanjay on January 5, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Alternative title: should SoGive red-team malaria vaccines? We've been seeing a lot of excitement about malaria vaccines - e.g. the first thing mentioned by the EA wins 2023 post was the R21 vaccine. We at SoGive looked into malaria vaccines about a year ago, and came away with a slightly more cautious impression. Bear in mind though, (a) we were trying to answer a different question[1]; (b) a lot has changed in a year. The purpose of this post is to outline these (currently tentative) doubts, and explore whether there's appetite for us to research this more carefully. The main things we're still unsure of At first glance, malaria vaccines appear less cost-effective than existing malaria interventions (nets/SMC[2]). Are they, in fact, less cost-effective? In light of this, does it make sense to advocate for their rollout? We thank 1Day Sooner for their helpful comments and constructive collaboration - we sent them a draft of this shortly before publishing. We also thank our contacts at Malaria Consortium and AMF; when we spoke to them in 2022 for our earlier review of malaria vaccines, their comments were very helpful. Some earlier work done by current/former members of the SoGive team has also provided useful groundwork for the thinking here, so thank you to Isobel Phillips, Ishaan Guptasarma, Scott Smith. Be aware that any indications of cost-effectiveness in this post are extremely rough, and may change materially if we were to conduct this research. Malaria vaccines may be materially (10x??) less effective than nets/SMC Based on the research we did a year ago, it seems that malaria vaccines significantly underperform bednets and SMC. Several items in this table are caveated; it's worth reviewing the version in the appendix which sets out the details. Several items in this table are caveated; it's worth reviewing the version in the appendix which sets out the details. RTS,S vaccine R21 vaccine Bednets* Cost-related considerations Cost per person treated $56.40 (estimated) >$8, based on WHO info; ~$25, based on info from 1Day Sooner $2.18 Number of doses needed per person 4 (i.e. 3 + a booster) 4 (i.e. 3 + a booster) 0.49 bednets per person protected Logistics: cold chain? Yes Yes, but less demanding than RTS,S No Efficacy-related considerations Reduction in clinical malaria** 55.8% 77% 45% Reduction in severe malaria** 32.2% Unknown, estimated at 44.4% 45% * SMC is only excluded from this table for brevity, not because of any preference for bednets over SMC. ** Malaria reduction figures are estimates under study conditions Vaccine costs look high… When we created this table c.1 year ago, the key message from this table is that costs for vaccines are materially higher than for bednets or SMC, which is significantly driven by logistical difficulties, such as the need for multiple doses and a cold supply chain (i.e. the vaccines have to be kept at a low temperature while they are transported). At the time, we focused on RTS,S because there was more information available. At that stage, we guessed that R21 would likely have similar costs to RTS,S. Somewhat to our surprise, it does seem that R21 costs may be lower than RTS,S costs. We weren't clear on the costs of R21, however when we shared a draft of this with 1Day Sooner, they helpfully pointed us to their Dec 2023 Vaccination Status Report. It seems they believe that each dose costs $3.90 on its own, and the all-in cost of delivering the first dose to a person is $25 per full course. ... and there doesn't * seem * to be an offsetting efficacy benefit. Although the efficacy numbers look similar, there are several complicating factors not captured in this table. For example, a consideration about the ages ...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Extended Navel-Gazing On My 2023 Donations, published by jenn on January 1, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Previously: Donations, The First Year Here's an update on what my household donated to this year, and why. Please be warned that there is some upsetting content related to the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict in this post, in the first section. The Against Malaria Foundation Around 90% of our donations ($15,000 of $16,500 total, all amounts in CAD) went to the Against Malaria Foundation (AMF). I remain a very old school EA mostly committed to global health and poverty reduction interventions for humans. If I was a US citizen I'd donate a portion of this to GiveWell's Unrestricted Fund for reasons I'll touch on below, but as a Canadian the key consideration for me was which GiveWell-recommended charities and funds had a Canadian entity, and unfortunately (or fortunately for eliminating analysis paralysis?) the AMF was the only recommended charity registered in Canada. This meant I could donate tax-deductibly, which meant I can donate ~20% more. (Or so I thought at the time. I've now discovered CAFCanada, but that's a problem for my 2024 donations.) The AMF almost didn't get my donation this year. According to Givewell's 2021 analysis, the AMF saves in expectation one life for every $7300 CAD donated. In the days after the onset of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, I began researching nonprofits offering medical aid to Palestinians, thinking that there's a chance their impact might surpass that benchmark[1]. I read many annual reports for many charities, focusing extra on their work in previous years of conflict. In the end none of them were anywhere close to how effective the AMF is (like at least an order of magnitude off), with one exception. Glia Gaza is a small team of Canadian doctors who are providing emergency care and 3D printed tourniquets to wounded Palestinians. The tourniquets came in different sizes for women and children in addition to men (most suppliers only supply tourniquets in adult male sizes). I researched the efficacy of tourniquets in saving lives. If you are dealing with bullet wounds, they help a lot when you use them to staunch bleeding and prolong the time you have to get to a hospital. They help, too, if there are no hospitals, just by significantly reducing the chance that you bleed out and die right there. Tying a tourniquet is challenging; it's easy to make mistakes that could worsen the situation or fail to apply them tightly enough. Glia created a new kind of 3D printed tourniquet that made it easier to tie properly, quickly. You can read some harrowing field reports that they wrote about their prototypes in 2018. There are some disturbing pictures, and worse stories. But the conclusion was that the tourniquets worked, and that they worked well. Their 3D printers were solar powered so they weren't dependent on grid access and the plastic was locally sourced. They're just printing out a whole bunch of them and leaving strategic caches for medical professionals to use, and to use themselves. Each tourniquet would cost $15 CAD to produce and distribute. With $7300 CAD they'd be able to distribute 486 tourniquets. I thought the chances were good that 486 additional tourniquets translated to more than one life saved on expectation (though I'm not an expert and I had some pretty huge error bars, and there was some questions around scalability with additional funds and the like). I decided to sleep on it before donating. I woke up to an update to their fundraising page. Their office where they had all their 3D printers (they didn't have that many) was caught in the blast of a bomb, and they had no ability to fix them. And because of the blockade there was no chance that they'd be able to fix them any time soon. Also, because of the bl...

C dans l'air du 26 décembre 2023 - Philippe Crevel, économiste, directeur du Cercle de l'Epargne Philippe Crevel est économiste, directeur du Cercle de l'Epargne. Il reviendra sur l'année 2023 sur le plan économique et financier. Quelles ont été les performances de la Bourse et notamment des grandes entreprises françaises ? Comment se porte le marché immobilier, marqué par une forte gausse des taux d'intérêt ? Tout cela dans un contexte géopolitique perturbé, entre guerre en Ukraine et au Proche-Orient, et donc dans une situation incertaine pour les investisseurs. Il reviendra également sur le rapport des Français à l'épargne et à la finance. Selon une récente étude de l'Association des marchés financiers (AMF), les Français épargnent en moyenne 268 euros par mois, contre 244 euros en 2022, et 30% d'entre eux économisent moins de 100 euros par mois. 55 millions de Français ont un livret A, actuellement gelé à 3%, un placement très sollicité, mais qui pourtant rapporte moins que l'inflation, estimée à 3,5% sur un an. Des Français qui sont 58% à être propriétaires de leur résidence principale, dans un contexte où les prix de l'immobilier ont baissé de 5% sur un an. Du côté des placements financiers, les jeunes sont les plus enclins à prendre des risques pour gagner de l'argent. 43% des moins de 35 ans se disent intéressés par investir dans des actions en bourse en 2024, contre 25% des plus de 55 ans. Philippe Crevel est économiste, et directeur du Cercle de l'Epargne. Il évoquera aussi l'année 2024. Si 2023 a été une année faste pour les performances boursières - +15% pour le Cac 40 - , que faut-il attendre l'an prochain ?

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: AMA: Founder and CEO of the Against Malaria Foundation, Rob Mather, published by tobytrem on December 12, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. TLDR: Share questions for Rob Mather (founder and CEO of the Against Malaria Foundation) in the comments of this post, by the 19th of December. Ask about anything! Comment on this post to ask Rob Mather, the founder and CEO of the Against Malaria Foundation (AMF), the charity that has protected 448,414,801 people with malaria nets, anything by the 19th of December. I'll be interviewing him live on 19th of December, at 6pm UTC. The interview will be hosted live on a link that I'll comment here before the event. I'll ask the questions you share on this post (and possibly some of my own). Although we might not get through all of them; we'll get through as many as we can in an hour. We'll aim for two dollars a net, two minutes an answer, so try to post short questions (1-2 sentences). Feel free to ask several questions (or add follow ups), though! If editing your question down would take a while, don't worry, I can shorten it. Though the questions won't be answered in the comments of this post, don't worry if you can't attend the live event. We'll post a video recording and perhaps a podcast version in the comments of this post. Some context for your questions: AMF distributes insecticide treated bed nets to protect sleepers from the bites of malaria carrying mosquitos, that would otherwise cause severe illness or worse. You can read about the toll of malaria on this Our World in Data page, and the effectiveness of bednets in this GiveWell report. Since 2009 AMF has been featured as a GiveWell top charity. Rob founded AMF in 2005. Since then, it has grown from a team of two to a team of thirteen. In 2006, they brought in $1,3 million in donations. In 2022, they brought in $120 million. AMF has received $545 million in donations to date, and has distributed 249 million bed nets. Currently, AMF's team of 13 is in the middle of a nine-month period during which they are distributing, with partners, 90 million nets to protect 160 million people in six countries: Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, South Sudan, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia. Rob tells me that: "These nets alone can be expected to prevent 40,000 deaths, avert 20 to 40 million cases of malaria and lead to a US$2.2 billion improvement in local economies (12x the funds applied). When people are ill they cannot farm, drive, teach - function, so the improvement in health leads to economic as well as humanitarian benefits." Impact numbers: Once all of the nets AMF has fundraised for so far have been distributed and have been given time to have their effect, AMF expects that they will have prevented 185,000 deaths, averted 100-185 million cases of malaria, and led to growth worth $6.5 billion in local economies. Some other links to check out: A video from GWWC telling the story of how Rob founded AMF. Rob's previous Forum AMA, four years ago. Rob discussed: The implications of adding 5 more staff to AMF's two person team. The flow-through effects of saving lives with bed nets. AMF's 2023 reflections and future plans. In it, Rob explains that: AMF has a $300m funding gap. The Global Fund, the top funder for Malaria control activities, has a $2.3B shortfall in 2024-6 funding, increasing the undersupply of malaria nets. Insecticide resistant mosquitoes are becoming more common, which may damage the effectiveness of older nets. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: HLI's Giving Season 2023 Research Overview, published by Happier Lives Institute on November 28, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Summary At the Happier Lives Institute, we look for the most cost-effective interventions and organisations that improve subjective wellbeing, how people feel during and about their lives[1]. We quantify the impact in 'Wellbeing Adjusted Life-Years', or WELLBYs[2]. To learn more about our approach, see our key ideas page and our research methodology page. Last year, we published our first charity recommendations. We recommended StrongMinds, an NGO aiming to scale depression treatment in sub-saharan Africa, as our top funding opportunity, but noted the Against Malaria Foundation could be better under some assumptions. This year, we maintain our recommendation for StrongMinds, and we've added the Against Malaria Foundation as a second top charity. We have substantially updated our analysis of psychotherapy, undertaking a systematic review and a revised meta-analysis, after which our estimate for StrongMinds has declined from 8x to 3.7x as cost-effective as cash transfers, in WELLBYs, resulting in a larger overlap in the cost-effectiveness of StrongMinds and AMF[3]. The decline in cost-effectiveness is primarily due to lower estimated household spillovers, our new correction for publication bias, and the prediction that StrongMinds might have smaller than average effects. We've also started evaluating another mental health charity, Friendship Bench, an NGO that delivers problem-solving therapy in Zimbabwe. Our initial estimates suggest that the Friendship Bench may be 7x more cost-effective, in WELLBYs, than cash transfers. We think Friendship Bench is a promising cost-effective charity, but we have not yet investigated it as thoroughly, so our analysis is more preliminary, uncertain, and likely to change. As before, we don't recommend cash transfers or deworming: the former because it's likely psychotherapy is several times more cost-effective, the latter because it remains uncertain if deworming has a long-term effect on wellbeing. This year, we've also conducted shallow investigations into new cause areas. Based on our preliminary research, we think there are promising opportunities to improve wellbeing by preventing lead exposure, improving childhood nutrition, improving parenting (e.g., encouraging stimulating play, avoiding maltreatment), preventing violence against women and children, and providing pain relief in palliative care. In general, the evidence we've found on these topics is weaker, and our reports are shallower, but we highlight promising charities and research opportunities in these areas. We've also found a number of less promising causes, which we discuss briefly to inform others. In this report, we provide an overview of all our evaluations to date. We group them into two categories, In-depth and Speculative, based on our level of investigation. We discuss these in turn. In-depth evaluations: relatively late stage investigations that we consider moderate-to-high depth. Top charities: These are well-evidenced interventions that are cost-effective[4] and have been evaluated in medium-to-high depth. We think of these as the comparatively 'safer bets'. Promising charities: These are well-evidenced opportunities that are potentially more cost-effective than the top charities, but we have more uncertainty about. We want to investigate them more before recommending them as a top charity. Non-recommended charities: These are charities we've rigorously evaluated but the current evidence suggests are less cost-effective than our top charities. Speculative evaluations: early stage investigations that are shallow in depth. Promising bets: These are high-priority opportunities to research because we think they're potentially mor...

In this episode of How I Grew This, Benjamin Chemla, CEO and Co-founder of Shares, joins Mada Seghete to share practical insights for anyone interested in entrepreneurship, trading, and the startup ecosystem. They dive into the success story of the Shares platform, the differences between the startup ecosystem in Europe and the US, and the importance of attracting a supportive and committed initial user base when launching your product. Benjamin is a seasoned French serial entrepreneur and AMF-certified business angel with a remarkable track record of building cohesive teams and companies from scratch and rapidly scaling them across Europe and the US for over a decade. One of his notable ventures was the on-demand delivery platform Stuart, which secured an impressive €22 million in funding before its official launch. Eventually, the company's outstanding growth attracted the attention of La Poste, leading to its acquisition.

DO NOT MISS THIS EPISODE! Need a little inspiration? Tune in for Dave's story. Links from the show:  Chasing My Cure: https://chasingmycure.com/ CDCN: https://cdcn.org/ Every Cure: https://everycure.org/ AMF: https://healgrief.org/actively-moving-forward/young-adult-grief/ David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, FCPP, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in Translational Medicine & Human Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania, Founding Director of the Center for Cytokine Storm Treatment & Laboratory (CSTL), Associate Director, Patient Impact of the Penn Orphan Disease Center, and Co-Founder/President of the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network (CDCN) and co-founder of Every Cure. He is also the national bestselling author of 'Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope Into Action' and a patient battling idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD). He is in his longest remission ever thanks to a precision treatment that he identified, which had never been used before for iMCD. He has also identified and/or advanced 9 other treatment approaches for iMCD and cancer.  One of the youngest individuals ever appointed to the faculty at Penn Medicine and in the top 1 percent youngest awardees of an NIH R01 grant, Fajgenbaum has published scientific papers in high-impact journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation, and Lancet, been recognized with awards such as the 2016 Atlas Award along with then Vice President Joe Biden, and profiled in a cover story by The New York Times as well as by Good Morning America, CNN, Forbes 30 Under 30, and the Today Show. An authority on cytokine storms and their treatment, Fajgenbaum currently leads over 20 translational research studies including the CORONA Project, which is the world's largest effort to identify, track, and advance COVID-19 treatments. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA, co-Chair of the Advisory Board for the CURE Drug Repurposing Collaboratory, and co-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for the CDCN.  Dr. Fajgenbaum earned a BS in Human Sciences with Distinction from Georgetown University, where he was USA Today Academic All-USA First Team and a Quarterback on the Division I football team, a MSc in Public Health from the University of Oxford as the 2007 Joseph L. Allbritton Scholar, a MD from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a 21st Century Gamble Scholar, and a MBA from The Wharton School, where he was awarded the Joseph Wharton Award, Core Value Leadership Award, Kissick Scholarship, Wharton Business Plan Competition Social Impact Prize, Eilers Health Care Management Award, Mandel Fellowship, and Commencement Speaker. Please visit https://behindtheknife.org to access other high-yield surgical education podcasts, videos and more.   If you liked this episode, check out our other recent episodes here: https://behindtheknife.org/listen/