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Charlie is a native Pittsburgher and a proud graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, where he studied Acting. As an actor, select stage credits include the NY Public Theatre's “Shakespeare in the Park” (All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure), the Pearl Theatre Company (Richard II), the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (King Lear, The Three Musketeers, Romeo and Juliet, Love's Labour's Lost), The Shakespeare Theatre of DC (Richard II, Henry V, As You Like It, Mrs. Warren's Profession), Middlebury Actor's Workshop (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), The Arts Center of Coastal Carolina (The Unexpected Guest), and Chautauqua Theatre Company (Much Ado About Nothing, Vaidehi, Ah, Wilderness!). In 2015, Charlie co-founded Esperance Theater Company — a company that produced classical-based work here in NYC. With Esperance, Charlie produced and performed in 12th Night, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Breitwisch Farm. As a teacher, Charlie has been working with MTCA (Musical Theater College Auditions) for over 20 years, where he is now a Director of the company alongside Leo Ash Evens. Charlie has also taught for Texas State University, PACE University, The Performing Arts Project (TPAP), Broadway Dreams, the City University of New York, Carnegie Mellon's Pre-College program, and the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. As a Teacher and Director, he is able to do two of his favorite things in life: help students to find their authentic selves as artists, and help them find their best fit in their collegiate journey. Charlie also hosts the “Mapping The College Audition” podcast, where he continues that work, and helps demystify this daunting audition process for listeners around the world. Charlie is also the proud father to a precocious toddler, partner to an amazing Tony-nominated + Grammy-winning Actress, and a humble Broadway Show League Softball MVP. Want to try our Broadway fitness program for free? www.builtforthestage.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Why is the housing market in India so expensive? Why is buying a house a decision fraught with risk and uncertainty? How can we find clues about the nexus between the builders and the politicians? This week, we speak to Vaidehi Tandel, an urban economist, who has researched into the issues that plague India's housing market.भारत में घर इतने महंगे क्यों है? घर खरीदना जोखिम और अनिश्चितता से भरा फैसला क्यों है? बिल्डरों और राजनेताओं के बीच सांठगांठ के बारे में सुराग कैसे मिलेंगे? इस सप्ताह पुलियाबाज़ी पर हमारे साथ जुडी अर्बन अर्थशास्त्री वैदेही टंडेल, जिन्होंने भारत के रियल एस्टेट को प्रभावित करने वाले मुद्दों पर शोध की है। वे मैनचेस्टर यूनिवर्सिटी में अर्बन इकोनॉमिक्स और रियल एस्टेट के विषय पढ़ाती हैं। We discuss:* Magical cities* Why are cities more productive?* Are Indian cities dense?* How to improve housing supply?* Issues with FSI constraints* Is the CBD-centric model good or bad?* Why are our urban areas dilapidated?* Vacant lands in cities* Litigations in Real Estate* Lemons in Housing Market* Impact of RERA* Real Estate in China* Rationalisation of building codesReadings:Do Mandatory Disclosures Squeeze the Lemons? The Case of Housing Markets in India by Vaidehi Tandel, Sahil Gandhi, Anupam Nanda & Nandini AgnihotriBuilding networks: Investigating the quid pro quo between local politicians & developers by Vaidehi Tandel, Sahil Gandhi and Alex TabarrokToo slow for the urban march: Litigations and the real estate market in Mumbai, India by Sahil Gandhi, Vaidehi Tandel, Alex Tabarrok and Shamika Ravi Related Puliyabaazi about Cities and Urbanisation:भारत का भविष्य हमारे शहर तय करेंगे। Managing India's Cities ft. Devashish Dhar, Authorएक अच्छे शहर का मतलब क्या है? Urbanisation Done Right.If you have any questions for the guest or feedback for us, please comment here or write to us at puliyabaazi@gmail.com. If you like our work, please subscribe and share this Puliyabaazi with your friends, family and colleagues.substack: Website: https://puliyabaazi.inGuest: @VaidehiTandelHosts: @saurabhchandra @pranaykotas @thescribblebeeTwitter: @puliyabaazi Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/puliyabaazi/Subscribe & listen to the podcast on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Castbox, AudioBoom, YouTube, Spotify or any other podcast app. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.puliyabaazi.in
Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav's book Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai's Ideas of Nationhood (Penguin Random House India, 2024) undertakes a systematic intellectual study of Lala Lajpat Rai's nationalist thought through four decades of his active political life, lived between 1888 and 1928. It contests the dominant scholarly interpretation of Lajpat Rai's nationalist thought as the nascent stage of Savarkarite Hindutva, and highlights the internally differentiated nature of ‘Hindu Nationalism'. Showing that, by 1915, Lajpat Rai moved towards ‘Indian' nationalist narratives, it challenges the assumption that all ideas of Hindu nationhood necessarily culminate in Hindutva. An examination of Lajpat Rai's final nationalist narrative as a Hindu Mahasabha leader in the 1920s confirms the revisionist historiographical rejection of the oppositional binary that was long drawn between Hindu communal politics, on one hand, and secular Indian nationalism and secularism, on the other. Lajpat Rai organized a Hindu politics in service of a secular Indian nation-state. Nevertheless, the book pushes back against revisionist assumptions that Hindu communal politics and secularism can be championed together comfortably, and that the articulation of a Hindu politics alongside a vision for secularism reduces that secularism to little more than Hindu majoritarianism. Being Hindu, Being Indian argues for the need to take the analytical tension and contrast between ‘Hindu politics' and ‘secularism' seriously. Methodologically, the book constitutes an argument to resist reductionism and respect the nuances, complexities, fluidity, and internal tensions in an individual thinker's thought. Dr. Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav is an intellectual historian of modern South Asia, with interests in nationalism, secularism, and religious and political thought more broadly. After receiving a DPhil in History from the University of Oxford, she was a post-doctoral research fellow at the “Multiple Secularities” Research Group at the University of Leipzig in Germany, and at ICAS: M.P. in New Delhi, India. She is now an incoming Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at the National Law School of India University in Bangalore, India. Anamitra Ghosh is a Doctoral Candidate at the Department of History, South Asia Institute, Universität Heidelberg, Germany. He can be reached at anamitra.ghosh@sai.uni-heidelberg.de Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav's book Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai's Ideas of Nationhood (Penguin Random House India, 2024) undertakes a systematic intellectual study of Lala Lajpat Rai's nationalist thought through four decades of his active political life, lived between 1888 and 1928. It contests the dominant scholarly interpretation of Lajpat Rai's nationalist thought as the nascent stage of Savarkarite Hindutva, and highlights the internally differentiated nature of ‘Hindu Nationalism'. Showing that, by 1915, Lajpat Rai moved towards ‘Indian' nationalist narratives, it challenges the assumption that all ideas of Hindu nationhood necessarily culminate in Hindutva. An examination of Lajpat Rai's final nationalist narrative as a Hindu Mahasabha leader in the 1920s confirms the revisionist historiographical rejection of the oppositional binary that was long drawn between Hindu communal politics, on one hand, and secular Indian nationalism and secularism, on the other. Lajpat Rai organized a Hindu politics in service of a secular Indian nation-state. Nevertheless, the book pushes back against revisionist assumptions that Hindu communal politics and secularism can be championed together comfortably, and that the articulation of a Hindu politics alongside a vision for secularism reduces that secularism to little more than Hindu majoritarianism. Being Hindu, Being Indian argues for the need to take the analytical tension and contrast between ‘Hindu politics' and ‘secularism' seriously. Methodologically, the book constitutes an argument to resist reductionism and respect the nuances, complexities, fluidity, and internal tensions in an individual thinker's thought. Dr. Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav is an intellectual historian of modern South Asia, with interests in nationalism, secularism, and religious and political thought more broadly. After receiving a DPhil in History from the University of Oxford, she was a post-doctoral research fellow at the “Multiple Secularities” Research Group at the University of Leipzig in Germany, and at ICAS: M.P. in New Delhi, India. She is now an incoming Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at the National Law School of India University in Bangalore, India. Anamitra Ghosh is a Doctoral Candidate at the Department of History, South Asia Institute, Universität Heidelberg, Germany. He can be reached at anamitra.ghosh@sai.uni-heidelberg.de Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history
Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav's book Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai's Ideas of Nationhood (Penguin Random House India, 2024) undertakes a systematic intellectual study of Lala Lajpat Rai's nationalist thought through four decades of his active political life, lived between 1888 and 1928. It contests the dominant scholarly interpretation of Lajpat Rai's nationalist thought as the nascent stage of Savarkarite Hindutva, and highlights the internally differentiated nature of ‘Hindu Nationalism'. Showing that, by 1915, Lajpat Rai moved towards ‘Indian' nationalist narratives, it challenges the assumption that all ideas of Hindu nationhood necessarily culminate in Hindutva. An examination of Lajpat Rai's final nationalist narrative as a Hindu Mahasabha leader in the 1920s confirms the revisionist historiographical rejection of the oppositional binary that was long drawn between Hindu communal politics, on one hand, and secular Indian nationalism and secularism, on the other. Lajpat Rai organized a Hindu politics in service of a secular Indian nation-state. Nevertheless, the book pushes back against revisionist assumptions that Hindu communal politics and secularism can be championed together comfortably, and that the articulation of a Hindu politics alongside a vision for secularism reduces that secularism to little more than Hindu majoritarianism. Being Hindu, Being Indian argues for the need to take the analytical tension and contrast between ‘Hindu politics' and ‘secularism' seriously. Methodologically, the book constitutes an argument to resist reductionism and respect the nuances, complexities, fluidity, and internal tensions in an individual thinker's thought. Dr. Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav is an intellectual historian of modern South Asia, with interests in nationalism, secularism, and religious and political thought more broadly. After receiving a DPhil in History from the University of Oxford, she was a post-doctoral research fellow at the “Multiple Secularities” Research Group at the University of Leipzig in Germany, and at ICAS: M.P. in New Delhi, India. She is now an incoming Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at the National Law School of India University in Bangalore, India. Anamitra Ghosh is a Doctoral Candidate at the Department of History, South Asia Institute, Universität Heidelberg, Germany. He can be reached at anamitra.ghosh@sai.uni-heidelberg.de Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography
Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav's book Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai's Ideas of Nationhood (Penguin Random House India, 2024) undertakes a systematic intellectual study of Lala Lajpat Rai's nationalist thought through four decades of his active political life, lived between 1888 and 1928. It contests the dominant scholarly interpretation of Lajpat Rai's nationalist thought as the nascent stage of Savarkarite Hindutva, and highlights the internally differentiated nature of ‘Hindu Nationalism'. Showing that, by 1915, Lajpat Rai moved towards ‘Indian' nationalist narratives, it challenges the assumption that all ideas of Hindu nationhood necessarily culminate in Hindutva. An examination of Lajpat Rai's final nationalist narrative as a Hindu Mahasabha leader in the 1920s confirms the revisionist historiographical rejection of the oppositional binary that was long drawn between Hindu communal politics, on one hand, and secular Indian nationalism and secularism, on the other. Lajpat Rai organized a Hindu politics in service of a secular Indian nation-state. Nevertheless, the book pushes back against revisionist assumptions that Hindu communal politics and secularism can be championed together comfortably, and that the articulation of a Hindu politics alongside a vision for secularism reduces that secularism to little more than Hindu majoritarianism. Being Hindu, Being Indian argues for the need to take the analytical tension and contrast between ‘Hindu politics' and ‘secularism' seriously. Methodologically, the book constitutes an argument to resist reductionism and respect the nuances, complexities, fluidity, and internal tensions in an individual thinker's thought. Dr. Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav is an intellectual historian of modern South Asia, with interests in nationalism, secularism, and religious and political thought more broadly. After receiving a DPhil in History from the University of Oxford, she was a post-doctoral research fellow at the “Multiple Secularities” Research Group at the University of Leipzig in Germany, and at ICAS: M.P. in New Delhi, India. She is now an incoming Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at the National Law School of India University in Bangalore, India. Anamitra Ghosh is a Doctoral Candidate at the Department of History, South Asia Institute, Universität Heidelberg, Germany. He can be reached at anamitra.ghosh@sai.uni-heidelberg.de Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history
Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav's book Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai's Ideas of Nationhood (Penguin Random House India, 2024) undertakes a systematic intellectual study of Lala Lajpat Rai's nationalist thought through four decades of his active political life, lived between 1888 and 1928. It contests the dominant scholarly interpretation of Lajpat Rai's nationalist thought as the nascent stage of Savarkarite Hindutva, and highlights the internally differentiated nature of ‘Hindu Nationalism'. Showing that, by 1915, Lajpat Rai moved towards ‘Indian' nationalist narratives, it challenges the assumption that all ideas of Hindu nationhood necessarily culminate in Hindutva. An examination of Lajpat Rai's final nationalist narrative as a Hindu Mahasabha leader in the 1920s confirms the revisionist historiographical rejection of the oppositional binary that was long drawn between Hindu communal politics, on one hand, and secular Indian nationalism and secularism, on the other. Lajpat Rai organized a Hindu politics in service of a secular Indian nation-state. Nevertheless, the book pushes back against revisionist assumptions that Hindu communal politics and secularism can be championed together comfortably, and that the articulation of a Hindu politics alongside a vision for secularism reduces that secularism to little more than Hindu majoritarianism. Being Hindu, Being Indian argues for the need to take the analytical tension and contrast between ‘Hindu politics' and ‘secularism' seriously. Methodologically, the book constitutes an argument to resist reductionism and respect the nuances, complexities, fluidity, and internal tensions in an individual thinker's thought. Dr. Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav is an intellectual historian of modern South Asia, with interests in nationalism, secularism, and religious and political thought more broadly. After receiving a DPhil in History from the University of Oxford, she was a post-doctoral research fellow at the “Multiple Secularities” Research Group at the University of Leipzig in Germany, and at ICAS: M.P. in New Delhi, India. She is now an incoming Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at the National Law School of India University in Bangalore, India. Anamitra Ghosh is a Doctoral Candidate at the Department of History, South Asia Institute, Universität Heidelberg, Germany. He can be reached at anamitra.ghosh@sai.uni-heidelberg.de Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/south-asian-studies
Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav's book Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai's Ideas of Nationhood (Penguin Random House India, 2024) undertakes a systematic intellectual study of Lala Lajpat Rai's nationalist thought through four decades of his active political life, lived between 1888 and 1928. It contests the dominant scholarly interpretation of Lajpat Rai's nationalist thought as the nascent stage of Savarkarite Hindutva, and highlights the internally differentiated nature of ‘Hindu Nationalism'. Showing that, by 1915, Lajpat Rai moved towards ‘Indian' nationalist narratives, it challenges the assumption that all ideas of Hindu nationhood necessarily culminate in Hindutva. An examination of Lajpat Rai's final nationalist narrative as a Hindu Mahasabha leader in the 1920s confirms the revisionist historiographical rejection of the oppositional binary that was long drawn between Hindu communal politics, on one hand, and secular Indian nationalism and secularism, on the other. Lajpat Rai organized a Hindu politics in service of a secular Indian nation-state. Nevertheless, the book pushes back against revisionist assumptions that Hindu communal politics and secularism can be championed together comfortably, and that the articulation of a Hindu politics alongside a vision for secularism reduces that secularism to little more than Hindu majoritarianism. Being Hindu, Being Indian argues for the need to take the analytical tension and contrast between ‘Hindu politics' and ‘secularism' seriously. Methodologically, the book constitutes an argument to resist reductionism and respect the nuances, complexities, fluidity, and internal tensions in an individual thinker's thought. Dr. Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav is an intellectual historian of modern South Asia, with interests in nationalism, secularism, and religious and political thought more broadly. After receiving a DPhil in History from the University of Oxford, she was a post-doctoral research fellow at the “Multiple Secularities” Research Group at the University of Leipzig in Germany, and at ICAS: M.P. in New Delhi, India. She is now an incoming Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at the National Law School of India University in Bangalore, India. Anamitra Ghosh is a Doctoral Candidate at the Department of History, South Asia Institute, Universität Heidelberg, Germany. He can be reached at anamitra.ghosh@sai.uni-heidelberg.de Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/indian-religions
Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav's book Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai's Ideas of Nationhood (Penguin Random House India, 2024) undertakes a systematic intellectual study of Lala Lajpat Rai's nationalist thought through four decades of his active political life, lived between 1888 and 1928. It contests the dominant scholarly interpretation of Lajpat Rai's nationalist thought as the nascent stage of Savarkarite Hindutva, and highlights the internally differentiated nature of ‘Hindu Nationalism'. Showing that, by 1915, Lajpat Rai moved towards ‘Indian' nationalist narratives, it challenges the assumption that all ideas of Hindu nationhood necessarily culminate in Hindutva. An examination of Lajpat Rai's final nationalist narrative as a Hindu Mahasabha leader in the 1920s confirms the revisionist historiographical rejection of the oppositional binary that was long drawn between Hindu communal politics, on one hand, and secular Indian nationalism and secularism, on the other. Lajpat Rai organized a Hindu politics in service of a secular Indian nation-state. Nevertheless, the book pushes back against revisionist assumptions that Hindu communal politics and secularism can be championed together comfortably, and that the articulation of a Hindu politics alongside a vision for secularism reduces that secularism to little more than Hindu majoritarianism. Being Hindu, Being Indian argues for the need to take the analytical tension and contrast between ‘Hindu politics' and ‘secularism' seriously. Methodologically, the book constitutes an argument to resist reductionism and respect the nuances, complexities, fluidity, and internal tensions in an individual thinker's thought. Dr. Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav is an intellectual historian of modern South Asia, with interests in nationalism, secularism, and religious and political thought more broadly. After receiving a DPhil in History from the University of Oxford, she was a post-doctoral research fellow at the “Multiple Secularities” Research Group at the University of Leipzig in Germany, and at ICAS: M.P. in New Delhi, India. She is now an incoming Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at the National Law School of India University in Bangalore, India. Anamitra Ghosh is a Doctoral Candidate at the Department of History, South Asia Institute, Universität Heidelberg, Germany. He can be reached at anamitra.ghosh@sai.uni-heidelberg.de Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/secularism
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: The EA Hub is retiring, published by Vaidehi Agarwalla on September 1, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. The EA Hub will retire on the 6th of October 2024. In 2022 we announced that we would stop further feature development and maintain the EA Hub until it is ready to be replaced by a new platform. In July this year, the EA Forum launched its People Directory, which offers a searchable directory of people involved in the EA movement, similar to what the Hub provided in the past. We believe the Forum has now become better positioned to fulfil the EA Hub's mission of connecting people in the EA community online. The Forum team is much better resourced and users have many reasons to visit the Forum (e.g. for posts and events), which is reflected in it having more traffic and users. The Hub's core team has also moved on to other projects. EA Hub users will be informed of this decision via email. All data will be deleted after the website has been shut down. We recommend that you use the EA Forum's People Directory to continue to connect with other people in the effective altruism community. The feature is still in beta mode and the Forum team would very much appreciate feedback about it here. We would like to thank the many people who volunteered their time in working on the EA Hub. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org
Imagine you are anesthetizing your last patient of the day, and the alarm for the anesthesia machine is blaring, warning that your patient's blood pressure is far too low. The machine reads 80/40 (55). It probably doesn't seem too hard to imagine, because anesthesia-induced hypotension is one of the most common cardiovascular complications of general anesthesia. In this episode, host Dr. Bonnie Gatson welcomes Dr. Vaidehi Paranjape. Not only is Dr. Paranjape a board-certified veterinary anesthesiologist and assistant professor at Virgina-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, but she has also focused her research career on understanding how to appropriately identify, measure, and manage cardiovascular problems under general anesthesia. We will answer your burning questions about blood pressure monitoring, including: what are we measuring when we take an animal's blood pressure, how do we know if we are measuring blood pressure correctly, which is the most accurate indirect method of measuring blood pressure: oscillometric or Doppler, and what are the most appropriate steps to take when dealing with a hypotensive patient under anesthesia?We invite our listeners to check out articles mentioned in today's episode: 2020 AAHA Anesthesia and Monitoring Guidelines for Dogs and Cats ACVAA Recommendations for Anesthesia Monitoring in horses and small animals ACVIM consensus statement on the identification, evaluation, and management of systemic hypertension in dogs and cats Veterinary Blood Pressure SocietyIf you like what you hear, we have a couple of favors to ask of you:Become a member at North American Veterinary Anesthesia Society (NAVAS) for access to more anesthesia and analgesia educational and RACE-approved CE content.Spread the word. Share our podcast and FB/IG posts, re-tweet, post something on a network or a discussion forum, or tell a friend over lunch. That would really help us achieve our mission: Reduce mortality and morbidity in veterinary patients undergoing sedation, anesthesia, and analgesia through high-quality, peer-reviewed education.We also ask our listeners to save the date for the NAVAS Virtual Spring Symposium on April 27th and 28th, 2024. For more information about the program, visit the NAVAS Spring Symposium website. Dr. Paranjape will be one of our featured speakers during the symposium, and several speakers will discuss blood pressure management under anesthesia.Thank you to our sponsor, Dechra - learn more about the pharmaceutical products Dechra has to offer veterinary professionals, such as Zenalpha.If you have questions about this episode or want to suggest topics for future episodes, reach out to the producers at education@mynavas.org.All opinions stated by the host and their guests are theirs alone and do not represent the thoughts or opinions of any corporation, university, or other business or governmental entity.The NAVAS Podcast is published monthly on or near the 15th of the month.Special thanks to Chris Webster for editing, producer Maria Bridges, and Saul Jimenez for IT support in making this podcast a reality.
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: Monetary and social incentives in longtermist careers, published by Vaidehi Agarwalla on September 24, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. In this post I talk about several strong non-epistemic incentives and issues that can influence people to pursue longtermistcareer paths (and specifically x-risk reduction careers and AI safety) for EA community members. For what it's worth, I personally I am sympathetic to longtermism, and to people who want to create more incentives for longtermist careers, because of the high urgency some assign to AI Safety and the fact that longtermism is a relatively new field. I am currently running career support pilots to support early-career longtermists.) However I think it's important to think carefully about career choices, even when it's difficult. I'm worried that these incentives lead people to feel (unconscious & conscious) pressure to pursue (certain) longtermist career paths even if it may not be the right choice for them. I think it's good for to be thoughtful about cause prioritization and career choices, especially for people earlier in their careers. Incentives Good pay and job security In general, longtermist careers pay very well compared to standard nonprofit jobs, and early career roles are sometimes competitive with for-profit jobs (
In this post I talk about several strong non-epistemic incentives and issues that can influence people to pursue longtermist[1]career paths (and specifically x-risk reduction careers and AI safety[2]) for EA community members.For what it's worth, I personally I am sympathetic to longtermism, and to people who want to create more incentives for longtermist careers, because of the high urgency some assign to AI Safety and the fact that longtermism is a relatively new field. I am currently running career support pilots to support early-career longtermists.) However I think it's important to think carefully about career choices, even when it's difficult. I'm worried that these incentives lead people to feel (unconscious & conscious) pressure to pursue (certain) longtermist career paths even if it may not be the right choice for them. I think it's good for to be thoughtful about cause prioritization and career choices, especially for people earlier in their [...] ---Outline:(01:00) Incentives(01:04) Good pay and job security(02:04) Funding in an oligopoly(03:54) It's easier to socially defer(05:02) High status(06:49) Role models and founder's effects(07:46) Availability(09:15) Support(09:54) Transferable career capital(10:28) Conclusion and SuggestionsThe original text contained 18 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: September 23rd, 2023 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/SWfwmqnCPid8PuTBo/monetary-and-social-incentives-in-longtermist-careers --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
In this post I talk about several strong non-epistemic incentives and issues that can influence people to pursue longtermist[1]career paths (and specifically x-risk reduction careers and AI safety[2]) for EA community members. For what it's worth, I personally I am sympathetic to longtermism, and to people who want to create more incentives for longtermist careers, because of the high urgency some assign to AI Safety and the fact that longtermism is a relatively new field. I am currently running career support pilots to support early-career longtermists.) However I think it's important to think carefully about career choices, even when it's difficult. I'm worried that these incentives lead people to feel (unconscious & conscious) pressure to pursue (certain) longtermist career paths even if it may not be the right choice for them. I think it's good for to be thoughtful about cause prioritization and career choices, especially for people earlier [...] ---Outline:(01:03) Incentives(01:07) Good pay and job security(02:10) Funding in an oligopoly(04:04) It's easier to socially defer(05:14) High status(07:05) Role models and founder's effects(08:04) Availability(09:36) Support(10:17) Conclusion and SuggestionsThe original text contained 18 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: September 23rd, 2023 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/SWfwmqnCPid8PuTBo/monetary-and-social-incentives-in-longtermist-careers --- 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: Updates to the flow of funding in EA movement building post, published by Vaidehi Agarwalla on July 25, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This is an summary of updates made to my previous post, The flow of funding in EA movement building. Overall Changes Total funding tracked in the data increased to $290M (from $245M). New data is from: Several private donors and Longview Philanthropy who shared (previously non-public) donation & grant recommendation data Global health & wellbeing spending e.g. GiveWell, ACE and some animal orgs (at a discounted rate since these organizations aren't explicitly focused on EA movement building but did contribute to the growth of the EA movement) The inclusion of some longtermist research organizations such as FHI which have helped do field building (also at a discounted rate) Changes to proportions and funding over time During the 2012-2016 period, funding tracked in my data roughly doubled from ~$4M to ~$8.9M (quick estimate) including $4M in funding to GiveWell and $0.5M from other donors. During 2017-2023 period, funding tracked roughly increased from $241 to $281M, from other donors and the inclusion of some cause-area specific organizations that contributed to movement building. The table below summarizes the changes to the proportions of funding coming from different sources: Funder CategoryChange in % New %Original %Other donorsUp ~8% 9.6%1.5%FTX Future FundDown ~3%14.8%17.5%EAIF (non-OP donors), LTFF & Jaan Tallinn (incl. SFF)Down ~1% EA Animal FundUp ~1%1.1%0% Open Philanthropy OP LT: Down 9.5%(~10.1% w. EAIF) OP GH&W: Down 0.4% OP Other: Up 5.9% Overall: Down ~3% OP LT: 50.4% (~54.5% w. EAIF) OP GH&W: 2.6% OP Other: 5.9% Overall: 63% OP LT: 59.8% (~64.6% w. EAIF) OP GH&W: 2.2% OP Other: 0% Overall: 66% Here's the new % data in a pie chart: What data is still missing? Total funding: I estimate total funding from 2012 to June 2023 is likely $300-350M (medium confidence). I previously estimated $250-280M (significant underestimate). Individual donors: I estimate that $1-20M since 2012 is probably still missing, since I haven't included donors who work with Effective Giving, Generation Pledge or Founders' Pledge. Allocation of cause-specific efforts: You may disagree with the discounting I've done towards different cause-specific projects (in either direction). If you think I'm underweighting those efforts, then you could consider that "missing" data. The most accurate way to do these estimates would be to ask movement building organizations for their annual expenses and to break down the sources of their funding. This information is not publicly available, and some organizations do not publish annual expenses publicly from where you might make initial guesses. I'd encourage organizations to share their numbers to give us a fuller picture of the landscape. Mistakes & reflections I didn't expect this post to be read by as many people as it was. If I'd known this in advance, I think it's likely I would have delayed publication and seeked more external feedback because concrete numbers can be sticky and hard to update people's views on. I noted that this was a preliminary analysis in the opening, but the data may have been seen as more final than it was. In the future I would spend more time hedging numbers and stating ranges of possible values and encourage people to cite those instead of exact numbers. I didn't add enough uncertainty estimates to the numbers throughout the post. For example, I mentioned that the data was incomplete, and provided an estimate on the total amount of funding ($250-280M) - this was a moderately large underestimate (the total new total tracked data now stands at $290M). I missed several sources of global health & wellbeing spending, which significantly increased total spend between 2012-2016. This ...
The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act was introduced in 2016 to protect consumers who had invested in residential real estate projects from malpractices by real estate developers. After the law was passed, most states established real estate regulatory authorities to register and oversee the conduct of real estate developers. What changes did this act try to bring in, and how has this regulatory change benefited consumers? Is the increased information about property litigation that the Maharashtra RERA provides affecting housing prices? Does RERA reduce information asymmetry in the housing market?In this episode of Interpreting India, Vaidehi Tandel and Sahil Gandhi join Anirudh Burman to give us insights into these issues and more. They discuss their recent working paper, co-authored with Anupam Nanda and Nandini Agnihotri. Their study analyses how housing prices change in response to mandatory disclosures under the RERA. The paper is titled, “Do Mandatory Disclosures Squeeze the Lemons? The Case of Housing Markets in India.”Episode ContributorsVaidehi Tandel is an economist working in the areas of urban economics, political economy, and public finance, with a focus on India. Currently, Dr. Tandel is a lecturer in real estate and urban economics at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research has been featured in The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Straits Times, Livemint, and others. Her papers have been published in the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of Urban Economics, the Journal of Regional Science, Environment and Urbanization, Cities, and BMJ Open, among others. Her current work looks at the politician-builder nexus in Mumbai, agglomeration economies in India, and climate change and adaptation across cities in developing countries.Sahil Gandhi is an urban and real estate economist. Dr. Gandhi is a lecturer at The University of Manchester's School of Environment, Education and Development. His research is in the fields of urban economics, real estate, and land economics. His recent papers are on vacant housing in India, migration and tenure choice, housing supply in Mumbai, and so on. His research has been published in the Journal of Urban Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of Regional Science, Environment and Urbanization, and Cities, among others. He has also led a report on affordable housing in India. Dr. Gandhi has bylines in international and Indian media outlets such as The Washington Post, The Hindu, Hindustan Times, The Economic Times, and Livemint, among others. His research has also been cited in The Financial Times, The BBC, The Straits Times, Livemint, and more.---Key Moments(0:00); Introduction(2:39); Chapter 1: The Context Behind RERA(9:56); Chapter 2: Key Regulatory Changes(15:21); Chapter 3: The Case of Maharashtra's RERA(17:27); Chapter 4: Mumbai's High Proportion of Litigated Projects(23:04); Chapter 5: The Aim and Findings of the Study(27:35); Chapter 6: Variations Across Housing Submarkets (32:35); Chapter 7: Luxury Housing and Mandatory Disclosures(35:02); Chapter 8: Non-Luxury Housing and Litigation Costs(36:10); Chapter 9: RERA's Impact on Low- and Middle-Income Consumers(40:36); Chapter 10: Types of Litigation Faced by Projects(43:44); Chapter 11: Future Research in Urban Economics(48:22); Outro---Additional ReadingsDo Mandatory Disclosures Squeeze the Lemons? The Case of Housing Markets in India by Vaidehi Tandel, Sahil Gandhi, Anupam Nanda, and Nandini AgnihotriToo Slow for the Urban March: Litigations and the Real Estate Market in Mumbai, India by Sahil Gandhi, Vaidehi Tandel, Alexander Tabarrok, and Shamika RaviView: Time to Make RERA Roar by Nandini Agnihotri and Sahil GandhiIndia Has to Attack Causes of Land Litigation. Modi's Ease of Doing Business Depends on It by Anirudh Burman Making Land Titles in India Marketable: Using Title Insurance as a Viable Alternative to Conclusive Titling by Anirudh Burman--Carnegie India Socials:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carnegieindia/ (@CarnegieIndia)Twitter: https://twitter.com/CarnegieIndiaWebsite: https://carnegieindia.orgYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CarnegieIndia/
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: The flow of funding in EA movement building, published by Vaidehi Agarwalla on June 23, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This post is part of EA Strategy Fortnight. You can see other Strategy Fortnight posts here. I've been reflecting on the role of funding in the EA movement & community over time. Specifically I wanted to improve common knowledge around funding flows in the EA movement building space. It seems that many people may not be aware of it. Funders (and the main organizations they have supported) have shaped the EA community in many ways - the rate & speed at which EA has grown (example), the people that are attracted and given access to opportunities, and the culture and norms the community embodies and the overall ecosystem. I share some preliminary results from research I've conducted looking at the historical flow of data to movement building sources. I wanted to share what I have so far for the strategy fortnight to get conversation started. I think there is enough information here to understand the general pattern of funding flows. If you want to play around with the data, here is my (raw, messy) spreadsheet. Key observations Overall picture Total funding 2012-2023 by known sources According to known funding sources, approximately $245M have been granted to EA movement building organizations and projects since 2012. I'd estimate the real number is something like $250-280M. The Open Philanthropy EA Community Growth (Longtermism) team (OP LT) has directed ~64% ($159M) of known movement building funding (incl. ~5% or $12M to the EAIF) since 2016. Note that OP launched an EACG program for Global Health and Wellbeing in 2022, which started making grants in 2023. Their budget is significantly smaller (currently ~$10M per year) and they currently prioritize effective giving organizations. The unlabeled dark blue segment is “other donors” Funders of EA Groups from 2015-2022 See discussion below for description of the "CEA - imputed" category. Note that I've primarily estimated paid organizer time, not general groups expenses. EA groups are an important movement building project. The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) has had an outsized influence on EA groups for much of the history of the EA movement. Until May 2021, CEA was the primary funder of part- and full-time work on EA groups. In May 2021, CEA narrowed its scope to certain university & city/national groups, and the EA Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) started making grants to non-target groups. In 2022, OP LT took over most university groups funding from both CEA (in April) and EAIF (in August). Until 2021 most of CEA's funding has come from OP LT, so its EA groups funding can be seen as an OP LT regrant. Breakdown of funding by source and time (known sources) 2012-2016 Before 2016, there was very limited funding available for meta projects and almost no support from institutional funders. Most organizations active during this period were funded by individual earning-to-givers and major donors or volunteer-run. Here's a view of funding from 2012-2016: No donations from Jaan Tallinn during this period were via SFF as it didn't exist yet. There is a $10K donation from OP to a UC Berkeley group in 2015 that is not visible in the main chart. “Other donors” includes mostly individual donors and some small foundations Quick details on active funders during this period: Individual Donors: A number of (U)HNW & earning-to-give donors, many of whom are still active today, such as Jaan Tallinn, Luke Ding, Matt Wage and Jeff Kaufman & Julia Wise. I expect I'm missing somewhere between ~$100,000 to $1,000,000 of donations from individuals in this chart per year from 2012 to 2016. EA Giving Group: In 2013, Nick Beckstead and a large anonymous donor started a fund (the EA Giving Group) to which multiple individual ...
Errata (July 16 2023) Since the original publication, I've made substantial improvements to the data in the post. The full account of changes are detailed in this post. The total funding tracked in the data increased to $290M (from $245M) and the main updates are: Several private donors shared (previously non-public) donation data. I believe I have gathered data from at least 50% of the major individual donors who have given to meta causes. I included meta global health & wellbeing spending e.g. GiveWell, ACE and some animal orgs (at 30-50% discounts since these organizations aren't explicitly focused on EA movement building but did contribute to the growth of the EA movement). This substantially increased total funding in the 2012-2016 period. I included some longtermist organizations such as FHI, GPI and Forethought Foundation which have done field building (at 40-60% discounted rates). This post is part of EA [...] ---Outline:(01:52) Key observations(01:55) Overall picture(02:07) Total funding 2012-2023 by known sources(04:29) Breakdown of funding by source and time (known sources)(04:35) 2012-2016(07:47) 2017-2023(12:18) Funders of EA groups (2015-2022)(16:31) Appendix(16:34) Breakdown of EA Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) funding sources(18:57) Breakdown of Funding Table--- First published: June 23rd, 2023 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/nnTQaLpBfy2znG5vm/the-flow-of-funding-in-ea-movement-building --- 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.
This post is part of EA Strategy Fortnight. You can see other Strategy Fortnight posts here.I've been reflecting on the role of funding in the EA movement & community over time. Specifically I wanted to improve common knowledge around funding flows in the EA movement building space. It seems that many people may not be aware of it. Funders (and the main organizations they have supported) have shaped the EA community in many ways - the rate & speed at which EA has grown (example), the people that are attracted and given access to opportunities, and the culture and norms the community embodies and the overall ecosystem. I share some preliminary results from research I've conducted looking at the historical flow of data to movement building sources. I wanted to share what I have so far for the strategy fortnight to get conversation started. I think there is enough information here to understand the general pattern of funding flows. If you want to play around with the data, here is my (raw, messy) spreadsheet.Key observations Total funding 2012-2013 by known sourcesAccording to known funding sources, approximately $245M have been granted to EA movement building organizations and projects since 2012. I'd estimate the real number is something like $250-280M. The Open Philanthropy EA Community Growth (Longtermism) team (OP LT) has directed ~64% ($159M) of known movement building funding (incl. ~5% or $12M to the EAIF) since 2016. Note that OP launched an EACG program for Global Health and Wellbeing in 2022, which started making grants in 2023. Their budget is significantly smaller (currently ~$10M per year) and they currently prioritize effective giving organizations.The unlabeled dark blue segment is “other donors”Funders of EA Groups from 2015-2022 See discussion below for description of the "CEA - imputed" category. Note that I've primarily estimated paid organizer time, not general groups expenses. EA groups are an important movement building project. The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) has had an outsized influence on EA groups for much of the history of the EA movement. Until May 2021, CEA was the primary funder of part- and full-time work on EA groups. In May 2021, CEA narrowed its scope to certain university & city/national groups, and the EA Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) started making grants to non-target groups. In 2022, OP LT took over most university groups funding from both CEA (in April) and EAIF (in August). Until 2021 most of CEA's funding has come from OP LT, so its EA groups funding can be seen as an OP LT regrant. Breakdown of funding by source and time (known sources)2012-2016Before 2016, there was very limited funding available for meta projects and almost no support from institutional funders. Most organizations active during this period were funded by individual earning-to-givers and major donors or volunteer-run. Here's a view of funding from 2012-2016:No donations from Jaan Tallinn during this period were via SFF as it didn't exist yet. There is a $10K donation from OP to a UC Berkeley group in 2015 that is not visible in the main chart. “Other donors” includes mostly individual [...]--- First published: June 23rd, 2023 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/nnTQaLpBfy2znG5vm/the-flow-of-funding-in-ea-movement-building --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. Share feedback on this narration.
In today's Episode Dr.Vanamala Viswanatha Spoke to Harshaneeyam about her journey into world of translations, various aspects of it at Legnth.An independent scholar and translator, Dr. Vanamala Viswanatha taught English language and literature for over four decades in premiere institutions in Bengaluru such as the Indian Institute of Science, Regional Institute of English, PG Centre of Bangalore University, and Azim Premji University. She is a bilingual scholar who has written in Kannada and English on matters of language, literature, teaching, and translation. Deeply engaged with various facets of Kannada culture, Dr. Vanamala Viswanatha was a drama artist in All India Radio. She anchored the Kannada news on Doordarshan from 1984-94. She was Associate Director, Katha Regional Academic Centre, Bangalore, an initiative that promoted Indian literatures in translation. She also worked as Honorary Director, Centre for Translation, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. Prof Vanamala Viswanatha served as a member on the National Translation Mission.Prof Vanamala Viswanatha has translated and introduced several well-known Kannada writers such as Sara Aboobacker, Lankesh, Vaidehi, and Ananthamurthy. She translated (with Hans Sjöstrom) Samskara into Swedish, and introduced the Swedish novel The Way of the Serpent by Torgny Lindgren in Kannada. (Sahitya Akademi, 2002). More recently, she has translated several classical texts from pre-modern and modern Kannada literature including the poetry of women saint poets of the 12th century Virashaiva movement (Vachana, Basava Samithi. 2012). The Life of Harishchandra (Harvard University Press, 2017), her translation of a medieval Kannada poetic classic in the Murty Classical Library of India series, is a landmark publication. Dr Vanamala Viswanatha's translation (with Shivarama Padikkal) of Indira Bai (1899), the first social novel in Kannada, published by Oxford University Press (2019), is yet another milestone in presenting the literary treasures of Kannada to a global readership. This text received the Best Translation award in 2020 from Kuvempu Bhasha Bharati Pradhikara, Government of Karnataka.To listen to 'Harischandra' Roopakam in English - https://bit.ly/harischandraTo Buy 'Harischandra' English Translation - https://amzn.to/41HKyvu*హర్షణీయం పాడ్కాస్ట్ గురించి మీ అభిప్రాయాన్ని ఈ క్రింది ఫార్మ్ ద్వారా మాకు తెలియ చేయండి. మీ అభిప్రాయం మాకు చాలా విలువైనది. ( feedback form) - https://bit.ly/3NmJ31Y*ఆపిల్ లేదా స్పాటిఫై ఆప్ లను కింది లింక్ సాయంతో ఆప్ డౌన్లోడ్ చేసి , ఫాలో బటన్ ను నొక్కి, కొత్త ఎపిసోడ్ లను ఉచితంగా డౌన్లోడ్ చేసుకోండి –స్పాటిఫై (Spotify )యాప్ –http://bit.ly/harshaneeyam ఆపిల్ (apple podcast) పాడ్కాస్ట్ –http://apple.co/3qmhis5 *మమ్మల్ని సంప్రదించడానికి harshaneeyam@gmail.com కి మెయిల్ చెయ్యండి.హర్షణీయంలో ప్రసారం చేసిన ప్రసిద్ధ...
In today's Episode Dr.Vanamala Viswanatha Spoke to Harshaneeyam about her journey into world of translations, various aspects of it at Legnth.An independent scholar and translator, Dr. Vanamala Viswanatha taught English language and literature for over four decades in premiere institutions in Bengaluru such as the Indian Institute of Science, Regional Institute of English, PG Centre of Bangalore University, and Azim Premji University. She is a bilingual scholar who has written in Kannada and English on matters of language, literature, teaching, and translation. Deeply engaged with various facets of Kannada culture, Dr. Vanamala Viswanatha was a drama artist in All India Radio. She anchored the Kannada news on Doordarshan from 1984-94. She was Associate Director, Katha Regional Academic Centre, Bangalore, an initiative that promoted Indian literatures in translation. She also worked as Honorary Director, Centre for Translation, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. Prof Vanamala Viswanatha served as a member on the National Translation Mission.Prof Vanamala Viswanatha has translated and introduced several well-known Kannada writers such as Sara Aboobacker, Lankesh, Vaidehi, and Ananthamurthy. She translated (with Hans Sjöstrom) Samskara into Swedish, and introduced the Swedish novel The Way of the Serpent by Torgny Lindgren in Kannada. (Sahitya Akademi, 2002). More recently, she has translated several classical texts from pre-modern and modern Kannada literature including the poetry of women saint poets of the 12th century Virashaiva movement (Vachana, Basava Samithi. 2012). The Life of Harishchandra (Harvard University Press, 2017), her translation of a medieval Kannada poetic classic in the Murty Classical Library of India series, is a landmark publication. Dr Vanamala Viswanatha's translation (with Shivarama Padikkal) of Indira Bai (1899), the first social novel in Kannada, published by Oxford University Press (2019), is yet another milestone in presenting the literary treasures of Kannada to a global readership. This text received the Best Translation award in 2020 from Kuvempu Bhasha Bharati Pradhikara, Government of Karnataka.To listen to 'Harischandra' Roopakam in English - https://bit.ly/harischandraTo Buy 'Harischandra' English Translation - https://amzn.to/41HKyvu*హర్షణీయం పాడ్కాస్ట్ గురించి మీ అభిప్రాయాన్ని ఈ క్రింది ఫార్మ్ ద్వారా మాకు తెలియ చేయండి. మీ అభిప్రాయం మాకు చాలా విలువైనది. ( feedback form) - https://bit.ly/3NmJ31Y*ఆపిల్ లేదా స్పాటిఫై ఆప్ లను కింది లింక్ సాయంతో ఆప్ డౌన్లోడ్ చేసి , ఫాలో బటన్ ను నొక్కి, కొత్త ఎపిసోడ్ లను ఉచితంగా డౌన్లోడ్ చేసుకోండి –స్పాటిఫై (Spotify )యాప్ –http://bit.ly/harshaneeyam ఆపిల్ (apple podcast) పాడ్కాస్ట్ –http://apple.co/3qmhis5 *మమ్మల్ని సంప్రదించడానికి harshaneeyam@gmail.com కి మెయిల్ చెయ్యండి.హర్షణీయంలో ప్రసారం చేసిన...
That's a wrap on this show, folks. After three years and well over 100 episodes, Andy, Joe, Laura, and Vaidehi are off to chase their dreams. Laura is excited to have the time to fully pursue spelunking. Andy finally convinced Larry David to do that Seinfeld spinoff he's been pitching for years. Joe is starting his side hustle on Cameo with his good friend Rudy, and Vaidehi joined a secret government project developing telekinesis. Oops, we shouldn't have told you that. In this atypical final episode our hosts yak it up one last time about favorite show moments and compare ourselves to the Beatles. As always, please check out findlaw.com for information on a wide variety of legal topics, current events, and great audio and visual content. And in all sincerity, thank you for listening.
Welcome to another episode of Relevancy!This episode is a sibling to Episode 11. In a collection of three interviews, we discuss with friends their experiences living in various metropolitan areas around the world. Thank you to Vaidehi, Paula, and Kofi for lending your time and voices.Connect with us on Instagram @relevancypodcast !
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: Save the Date April 1st 2023 EAGatherTown: UnUnConference, published by Vaidehi Agarwalla on March 20, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. We're excited to officially announce the very first EA UnUnConference! APPLY HERE. Naming What We Can, the most impactful post ever published on April 1st, have already volunteered to host a Q&A. We're calling in the producers of the TV hit Impact Island, and would like to invite Peter Barnett to launch his new book What The Future Owes Us. The X-risk-Men Incubation Program is running an enlightening talks session. Location: Mars in Gathertown Date: April 1st, 2023, 24 hours and 37 minutes starting at 12:00pm UTC (or “lunch time” for british people) The case for impact Over the years, humanity realized that Unconferences are a great twist of traditional conferences, since the independence gives room for more unexpected benefits to happen. For the reason, we're experimenting with the format of an UnUnconference. This means we'll actively try not to organize anything, therefore (in expectancy) achieving even more unexpected benefits. We encourage you to critique our (relatively solid, in our opinion) theory of change in the comments! We understand this is not the most ambitious we could be. Although we fall short of the dream of EAGxMars, we believe this Ununconference is a proof-of-concept that will help validate the model of novel, experimental conferences and possibly redefine what impact means for EA events for years to come. This team is well placed to unorganize this event because we have previously successfully not organized 10^10 possible events. What to expect All beings welcomed, that includes infants, face mice, gut microbiome, etc. Expect to have the most impactful time Make more impact than everyone on earth could ever do combined Network with the best minds in ultra-near-termist research Never meet your connections again after the event Certificates of £20 worth of impact just for £10! No success metrics No theory of change No food, no wine, no suffering Check out our official event poster! Pixelated lightbulb that looks like mars as a logo for an unconference (DALL-E) Get involved Take a look at the confernce agenda and add sessions to your calendar Comment on this post with content suggestions and anti-suggestions Sign up for an enlightning talk Unvolunteer for the event UnUnvolunteer for the event (your goal will be to actively unorganize stuff) UnUnUnvolunteer for the event (your goal will be to actively ununorganize stuff) .. And so on. We think at least 5 levels of volunteers will be necessary for this event to be a complete success, to minimize risk of not falling into the well known meta trap. 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: Some problems in operations at EA orgs: inputs from a dozen ops staff, published by Vaidehi Agarwalla on March 16, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This is a brief summary of an operations brainstorm that took place during April 2022. It represents the views of operations staff at 8-12 different EA-aligned organizations (approximately). We split up into groups and brainstormed problems, and then chose the top problems to brainstorm some tentative solutions. The aim of the brainstorming session was to highlight things that needed improvement, rather than to evaluate how good EA operations roles are relative to the other non-profit or for-profit roles. It's possible that EA organizations are not uniquely bad or good - but that doesn't mean that these issues are not worth addressing. The outside world (especially the non-profit space) is pretty inefficient, and I think it's worth trying to improve things. Limitations of this data: Meta / community building (and longtermist, to a lesser degree) organizations were overrepresented in this sample, and the tallies are estimates. We didn't systematically ask people to vote for each and every sub-item, but we think the overall priorities raised were reasonable. General Brainstorming Four major themes came up in the original brainstorming session: bad knowledge management, unrealistic expectations, bad delegation, and lack of respect for operations. The group then re-formed new groups to brainstorm solutions for each of these key pain points. Below, we go into a breakdown of each large issue into specific points raised during the general brainstorming session. Some points were raised multiple times and are indicated by the “(x n)” to indicate how many times the point was raised. Knowledge management Problems Organizations don't have good systems for knowledge management. Ops staff don't have enough time to coordinate and develop better systems. There is a general lack of structure, clarity and knowledge. Issues with processes and systems (x 4) No time on larger problems Lack of time to explore & coordinate Lack of time to make things easier ([you're always] putting out fires) [Lack of] organizational structure Line management Capacity to cover absences [see Unrealistic Expectations] Covering / keeping the show running Responsibilities Working across time zones Training / upskilling Management training [see improper delegation] Lack of Clarity + Knowledge Legal Compliance HR Hiring Wellbeing (including burnout) Lack of skill transfer Lack of continuity / High turn-over of junior ops specialists Potential Solutions Lowering the bar - e.g. you don't need a PhD to work in ops. Pick people with less option value. Ask people to be nice and share with others Best practice guides shared universally. [Make them] available to people before hiring so they can understand the job better before applying, so [there's] less turn-over. Database? (Better ops Slack?) Making time to create Knowledge Management Systems - so less fire-fighting. People higher in the organization [should have] better oversight of processes/knowledge. Unrealistic expectations Problems Employers have unrealistic expectations for ops professionals. Ops people are expected to do too much in too little time and always be on call. Lack of capacity / too much to do (x2) [Lack of] capacity to cover absences [from above] Ops people [are expected to be] “always on call” Timelines for projects [are subject to the] planning fallacy, [and there are] last minute changes Ops team [are] responsible for all new ideas that people come [up] with - could others do it? Unrealistic expectations about coordination capacity skillset organizational memory Solutions Bandwidth (?) Increase capacity Have continuity [give ops staff the] ability to push back on too-big asks Recognition Create...
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: Pineapple now lists marketing, comms & fundraising talent, fiscal sponsorship recs, private database (Jan '23 Update), published by Vaidehi Agarwalla on January 27, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Marketing, PR & comms skills lists now live (in addition to Ops, PA & ExA work) Candidates can now explicitly list themselves as having marketing, comms & fundraising roles. As we previously discussed, these kinds of skills are often swept under the operations umbrella at many EA-aligned orgs, especially smaller ones. We soft-launched the option in our sign-up form during Dec '22, and have already had ~12 people be open to these roles on their profile. You can view candidates by role on our roles page here. If you're an existing candidate who'd like to add those skills to your profile, email us at info@pineappleoperations.org. We now list fiscal sponsorship resources Fiscal sponsorship and operations support are a common pain points of early stage projects, so we've shared some recommendations from operations staff at other EA organizations. The Pineapple Ops team has not personally vetted or thoroughly reviewed this list. Please do research any fiscal sponsor you wish to work with. Why are we sharing these resources? Knowledge sharing of operations in EA has a lot of room for improvement. Since our team doesn't have the capacity to do resource compilations ourselves with a concerted effort, we wanted to try collaborating with other folks to create lists. Our progress to date (what we think we've done well on) Progress on placements (our main metric for impact) We've been up for 3 months, and in that time we've placed at least 9 people in full- or part-time roles, with at least 4 more getting strong leads and/or making it to late stage of the applications process that we know of. We currently list over 180 people candidates. Rough cost per placement: ~$420 USD (We expect cost per placement to drop as this estimate includes project set-up time) We've received a lot of positive feedback from employers and candidates alike - even those who haven't yet been placed directly from the board. Moving fast & experimenting I am happy with the pace at which we've moved as a part-time project. I think we've found new areas to explore which aren't too ambitious We are currently experimenting with another, smaller project that we hope will result in more candidate placements, and currently troubleshooting demand-supply issues. (We plan to discuss this project in more depth in future updates). Areas of improvement During our informal internal review, I (Vaidehi) felt the main area for improvement was to spend a little bit more time advertising the database to candidates and employers more. We did an initial sprint during November but this died down over Dec & Jan. We want to make sure that folks know about Pineapple Operations and its offered resources. We are currently evaluating capacity to do more advertising, but tentatively want to hit a target of putting out reminders, content or resources every 3-6 weeks. So far, we don't think we've made any major mistakes in the course of running this project. Additionally, although initial budgeting for the project was correct, we've identified more worthwhile opportunities than we expected to spend our initial funding on and will likely need to reduce time spent on the project or fundraise. As an unpaid volunteer, I (Vaidehi) have not been as strict on time tracking my hours as I would like to be, so I expect we may be underestimated my time input (and possible counterfactual of where else I could spend my time). Get Involved & Support us Sign up to be listed on the database Let us know if you've been hired or made it to later stages of a job application (or found a good candidate!) because of our job board We are seeking funding (~$10K) t...
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: Improving EA events: start early & invest in content and stewardship, published by Vaidehi Agarwalla on December 12, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This post is part of an ongoing series: Events in EA: Learnings and Critiques. TL:DR; The way many EA events are run is unsustainable for event organisers and does not leave sufficient slack for running excellent events and experimenting for learning. We share our models for better event planning and highlight some key challenges with current approaches to event operations (event ops). We make the case that hiring early, finding a venue and outsourcing logistics will create more capacity to invest in the most important (but relatively neglected) aspects of event ops - content, structure and stewardship. More capacity can also allow organisers to deviate from defaults and innovate with new event formats and styles, and engage in more resource-intensive programming. We aim to set realistic expectations and provide practical guidance for newer organisers to better prepare them. Good event ops people are not easily replaceable. We've observed a trend of event organisers being put under a lot of (unnecessary) pressure due to a lack of planning and capacity. We give a bunch of real (anonymised) examples throughout this post to illustrate our point. We don't go into specific suggestions because it's very event-dependent, but we'd estimate that adding ~20-40% of lead time and/or capacity would help achieve these goals. We'd love to hear if you're an event organiser and don't find this helpful or actionable. Although we're only talking about events, we think it's possible there are similar trends in other areas -we'd love to hear about them if you've got observations! The Hierarchy of Events Planning In Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, needs lower down in the hierarchy must be satisfied before individuals can attend to needs higher up. Our pyramid is similar - components lower down in the hierarchy are more basic and are necessary for an event to exist. The exact configuration of each component affects the ones above it (e.g. if your venue only has 2 rooms, you probably can't have an agenda with 3 tracks of events running simultaneously). However, influence is not strictly linear - so the structure of the event might influence which venue you choose (e.g. if you want to create an informal atmosphere, you might choose to host an event in a smaller, more casual venue instead of a formal one, or if you need a lot of stewardship for newer attendees, you might hire a larger team to manage those needs). Consider Leverage If you could invest 1-10% more resources (time) for 10-30% return, this seems worth considering. In the following, we're going to try and point out the highest leverage points of each step of the pyramid - the places where spending that extra time could make a big difference and open up more possibilities. Work backwards from specific goals aka don't start with “I want to run a conference” It may sound trite, but no event makes sense without specific, concrete, and measurable goals - you need to know the who and why, and then work backwards from there. Start with a specific goal like “I want to facilitate peer- to peer bonding for my local university group” and then list all the ways that could achieved, (host a social dinner, a retreat, a 1-day hike, a group project etc.), rather than do an event format because it's been done before and seems effective. Here are some goals an event might have - note that these goals are pretty different from each other, and it's pretty hard to create events that could excel more than a couple at once: Networking - participants form important connections with others - either peers or mentors Learning/Skilling up - participants learn from each other or experts on a particular topic Id...
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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: Doing Ops in EA FAQ: before you join (2022), published by Vaidehi Agarwalla on November 8, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Last edited: November 7th 2022 This guide was written by the Pineapple Operations team with inputs from several operations staff at various organizations to provide an overview of considerations for entering operations work at EA orgs. We think it'll be especially useful for people new to EA and/or operations who are considering working in this space. We think it could also be valuable for people looking to hire for these roles to understand the perspectives of candidates but it has less directly relevant advice (we may write up something in the future). We've chosen to publish this now because it seems like it could be useful to many people. We may make updates in the future and will keep a change log in the appendix. 1. What is operations in EA? TL;DR it's come to mean “everything that supports the core work and allows other people to focus on the core work” (this is not normally what operations means outside of EA, administration may be a more appropriate term). Operations in EA is a very broad area that can mean a lot of different things. This guide focuses on most operations roles (excluding PA/ExA roles and operations leadership roles). There are a few roles that we've seen open positions for in the last year (2022). Note that many roles will include several items from this list: Operations Manager (most often at small / new organisations) Implementing and maintaining general systems & processes Managing Accounting, Payroll & Legal Fundraising Marketing & Communications PA tasks for the team Other ad-hoc projects Office & Community Manager People Ops/HR Recruiting Coordinator Special Projects Associate / Project Manager (usually helping incubate new projects or do project management) Events Associate (events planning & execution) Logistics/Supply Chain Some roles will also have operations staff doing direct generalist work - such as research or program development - as needed, and generalist roles at smaller orgs will also involve operations work. Generalists can do many different things, well outside the ops domain - could be research, sales, and even having inputs on strategy. Generalist work that involves research will be often very different in nature to operations where task switching is common, or external facing work vs back-office admin tasks which don't require much human contact. If you are hired as an operations person, keep in mind that this will likely be your top priority - it's literally what keeps the lights on. Read the job description for each role carefully before applying - roles with the same title might have very different responsibilities, and be clear about what proportion of your time could actually be spent on generalist work if that's mentioned in the JD (and that orgs may not be able to always predict this ahead of time). "In my current EA role, which is generalist but more explicitly ops-focused, my responsibilities have included ops, communications, and research, and shift based on my comparative advantage relative to the rest of the team. In this type of role it's important to have a clear sense of priorities and boundaries, because your work could easily encompass. everything. It's also important to learn to communicate clearly across functions and outside of your org, and to be flexible and excited about learning new things!" Emily Thai, Operations Manager @ Giving Green Operations is often recommended as a good fit for community builders or people with experience organising local groups. There is typically a fair amount of overlap between the two roles - community building can involve many tasks that often fall under ops in EA e.g. events, implementing systems & processes, managing people/community me...
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: On retreats: nail the 'vibes' and venue, published by Vaidehi Agarwalla on October 28, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This year I attended a few retreats with different goals and audiences (mostly for people already fairly involved in EA). This post lists some observations and lessons I took away from them about how I would want to run a retreat. I've probably written some suggestions with more confidence than is warranted - I have strong opinions that are weakly held. For brevity, I've not always delved into my reasoning for every specific point, but I'm happy to expand in the comments! I've shared early versions of this advice with a couple of people running retreats, and it seemed to be helpful. Not all of this advice will apply to any one retreat, I think the best way to read this is to take what makes sense given your goals and use those. I think most of these suggestions are useful for community retreats; and maybe ~30-60% are useful for professional retreats. I'd be really excited for more people to share their reflections on what's worked and what hasn't. Nail the 'vibes' Your goal is (probably) to help people make friends. For this reason, the vibes matter. Take time to observe how the attendees are interacting, and regularly ask the most perceptive or senior attendees how it's going. It's important to preserve participants' intention, energy, and eagerness to participate proactively. Go light with the schedule & be flexible with content Creating a schedule is always difficult, but when in doubt I advocate for cutting things (ruthlessly). I think that attendees will ultimately care more about the overall flow and atmosphere than that extra session. Have a shorter ‘work' day of (high quality) scheduled events to leave enough time for chilling and socializing (e.g., 10am-5pm). This will give participants time to make friends and prevent them getting too tired. That being said - make sure the content you do have is excellent. Be willing and able to pivot - don't be scared to throw out the schedule and do something else if you feel participants aren't resonating with the content you have, or someone makes a suggestion that seems good. Factor in downtime for attendees to recover from travel. Make people feel comfortable and relaxed Try to avoid people coming late: It can feel bad to miss the first day. If people must come late, batch latecomers and have someone give them an orientation and introduce them to other participants. Consider introducing latecomers to someone beforehand, so they know at least one non-organizer when they arrive. Check in with folks: Organizers can identify and periodically check on (e.g.) the 30% of participants who are most likely to feel out of place: for example, newer EAs or people who are less well-connected. Look out for each other: The German funconference had ‘awareness facilitators' who would support you in case of physical & mental health problems or if you felt like someone crossed your boundaries, and who would keep information confidential. I thought this was a really good thing to have. Help people get to know each other before the retreat: You can share a ‘names and faces' deck of all the attendees for people to read, and also print them and put them out in the common areas. Consider activities which allow people to seek help and be vulnerable, if it makes sense: I have found Hamming Circles during retreats to be quite helpful and a positive experience (and others who've participated say the same). However, they can be very intense and it's likely that I had a positive experience because I only opted into them when I already trusted the people around me, felt open to the experience, and when the activity was being run by someone who was experienced in running these kinds of activities. Think about ways to facilitate...
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: PAs in EA: A Brief Guide & FAQ, published by Vaidehi Agarwalla on October 25, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This guide was produced by Pineapple Operations; Holly Morgan is the primary author, with support from Jennifer Waldmann and Vaidehi Agarwalla (all mistakes are Holly's own). 1. What is a Personal Assistant? What is an Executive Assistant? Personal Assistants (PA) tend to be hired remotely on a self-employed basis for ~5-10 hours a week per client. Support is generally focused on saving time in someone's private life and is primarily administrative. Executive Assistants (ExA) tend to be full-time, on-site employees. Support is usually focused on saving and managing time in someone's professional life and is often a mix of administrative, motivational, and generalist. For simplicity, we'll refer to both as PAs for the rest of this post. 2. What typical tasks might a PA do? Admin and research Travel logistics Research and summarise/book top options for flights and accommodation Look into the latest rules around visas, coronavirus, etc. Procurement Research and summarise/buy top options for a particular product or service E.g. laptop, eye mask, credit card, gift, hairdresser, therapist, apartment Desk research Write/find digestible summaries of specific articles, papers, books, etc. Answer questions, e.g. “Are any organisations working on X?”, “What's the best productivity solution for Y?” Household management In-person errands, e.g. receive/return packages, process mail, duplicate keys Find and manage household workers, e.g. cleaners, childcare, electricians Motivation and focus Check-ins Regularly run through a tailored list of questions, e.g. “What are your most important tasks this week that you're worried you won't do?”, “Can we think of any motivational hacks now to increase the chance that you'll do them?”, “What steps will you take this month towards becoming your best self?” Check that the person has started work, spent 1 hour on top-priority tasks, done 7 hours' work today, etc. or just literally stand behind them like a patient teacher while they write that aversive email Proactively address current/anticipated issues with workflows and prioritisation processes based on a deepening familiarity with those systems and the goals behind them Disruptive and 'ugh' tasks Do tasks that must be done frequently or at a specific time and so would otherwise disrupt the person's schedule/focus, e.g. regularly check incoming messages for anything sufficiently urgent and important, take notes in meetings, try to get hold of a company that rarely picks up, buy tickets as soon as they go on sale Do/start tasks that the person finds particularly aversive, e.g. draft emails, book medical appointments Inbox, calendar, and task management Provide daily summaries of what today's priorities seem to be (and stay on top of deadlines) Triage incoming emails and politely decline requests as appropriate Schedule meetings (with more privacy/professionalism/gatekeeping/nuance than an app) Deliver briefings before meetings and conferences Manage tasks as they're thought of, allowing the person to quickly regain focus on their work Listen to the person's problems without judgement :-) Generalist and miscellaneous Generalist Drawing on the Assistant's generalist skill set, ad hoc tasks that there are no dedicated staff for (yet) Can involve generally being another pair of eyes (proofreading, being a sounding board, rubber ducking, user testing, etc.) or potentially management in specific areas (social media, recruitment, office, events, etc.) Miscellaneous This is an opportunity to add a complementary set of skills and attributes to someone's working life So if someone is disorganised, reckless, pessimistic, etc., they could work with an assistant who's the opposite 3. How much...
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: An EA's Guide to Berkeley and the Bay Area, published by Elika on October 13, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. If you are visiting or new to the Bay (and Berkeley specifically) and are looking for an EA community, this guide is a useful place to start. It can be a difficult place to navigate for newcomers, and in this guide we (Elika and Vaidehi, communtiy members of East Bay EA) hope to make it a bit easier. This guide is not a representation of the views of everyone in the community or any organisation. This guide is most helpful if you're already planning or seriously considering coming to Berkeley and want to get more context on the community and culture, rather than trying to convince you to come or be fully comprehensive. We mostly focus on the Berkeley community in this guide, but a lot of what we talk about is relevant for the San Francisco community as well. We try to be pretty frank on the challenges and the negatives because we think it's important to give an accurate picture of the community. That being said, Berkeley (and the Bay) is a great place with a really vibrant EA community! We hope you enjoy it and are welcomed warmly :) To encourage that, feel free to reach out to any local community organisers listed in the People section! We also recommend joining the group chats listed. Overview Here's a map. EAs usually mean San Francisco or Berkeley in the East Bay (a uni town for UC Berkeley 45 minutes from San Francisco) when they say “the bay”. Berkeley is particularly focused on technical AI alignment, housing organisations like Redwood Research, CFAR, MIRI, CHAI (at UC Berkeley) and Lightcone Infrastructure. As a result, there is significant overlap between the EA and rationalist communities in Berkeley, much more so than any other EA community (see more). Generally, most senior or engaged community members in Berkeley (and many in SF) are longtermists and work on AI safety. Many longtermist EA programs in summer of 2022 are being hosted in Berkeley and bring in people from all over, such as the SERI MATS program and the EA Communications Fellowship. The San Francisco community is overlapping but distinct, with relatively less rationalists and AI focused people. Organisations who have offices in SF include Open Phil, GiveWell, Founders' Pledge, and some EA startups like Mission Barns (alternative meats) and Momentum. OpenAI and Anthropic also have offices in SF. The Bay is a major hub because of the founders' effects - several historically important founding communities and organisations of the EA movement were founded and continue to be based here. This includes rationalist organisations like LessWrong, CFAR and MIRI in Berkeley, and separately GiveWell in San Francisco. Find links to community pages here, advice about moving to an EA hub here. Culture The EA culture in Berkeley is influenced by the communities it is a part of - the rationality, silicon valley / tech communities. Most people are very passionate and dedicated longtermists who tend to take existential risks very seriously and/or have short AGI timelines. There can be a “doom-y” vibe (sometimes in social settings as well, although you can find events that are more fun). Below is an incomplete list of some aspects of the community that might be important to contextualise your experiences: The community in Berkeley is overwhelmingly longtermist. You may feel alienated if you don't hold these beliefs, or find it more difficult to find lots of in-depth conversations on other cause areas because people are primarily interested in a few topics. There can be a more intense work culture in the Bay, with high variance. For some people it's normal to work long hours and come in on the weekends. This can be really motivating and inspiring for some people. But there can also be pressure to wor...
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: Pineapple Operations is expanding to include all operations talent (Oct '22 Update), published by Vaidehi Agarwalla on October 13, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Pineapple Operations aims to streamline the operations talent search and save both employers' and candidates' time. We provide a public directory of people interested in operations work in the EA ecosystem. Changes to our “operations” Our database now includes all operations talent We're excited to announce that we've expanded our database to include all operations talent, with 100+ candidates listed so far! Our goal is for the database to be a central, easy-to-use and up-to-date database. Let us know in the comments or here how we could do that better! We are trying out a minimum viable product, so anyone can list themselves on the database (we remove spam). We previously only listed PA/ExA talent. List yourself | Search the database We are not offering any other services as of now Due to capacity constraints we are not offering any personalised services or candidate vetting at this time. We think they are likely to be valuable, but unfortunately cannot do them ourselves. We think these services are potentially really valuable, especially for organisations with limited capacity and would experiment more in this space if we had capacity. If you're interested and have prior experience in recruiting and/or operations please reach out. We have several ideas we'd like to test (and several potential clients who would like them!). Others experimenting on their own or through other projects with outsourcing operations recruiting should also get in touch to see if we can work together Note: We will be posting two short guides on hiring / getting hired for PA/ExAs & operations staff, which we hope will help in the meantime. New Team Vaidehi Agarwalla and Alexandra Malikova run Pineapple Operations. We are grateful to Holly Morgan and previous team members for founding and working on earlier versions of the project. How are we doing so far? What can we do better? If you've found a position or hired someone you found on our database, please let us know! Since we are in the beta testing phase, we would also love to know how we can improve. You can contact us at info@pineappleoperations.org, share in the comments below or leave feedback anonymously via our feedback form. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.
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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: Why don't people post on the Forum? Some anecdotes, published by Vaidehi Agarwalla on October 3, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. I know lots of people who want to write for the Forum, but who struggle to actually get their posts written. I think this is bad - it means that we miss out on useful knowledge and insight, and that Forum posts are skewed towards users who: are more self-confident have less impostor syndrome have more spare time feel more comfortable with writing Below, I share some anecdotes I've heard from acquaintances and people on EA Twitter about why they don't post on the Forum. Then, I make some brief suggestions for things you can do if this post resonates. So why don't people post? All of the stories below are real examples, but with the names and some other details changed for anonymity. Some of these stories come from private conversations; others from Twitter. I also know other specific examples I haven't described in this post. I want to zoom out and see the big picture, before diving into examples. Aaron Bergman was kind enough to make this plot of unique authors over time (the big jump is likely due to all the competitions recently). Ideally, I would have liked to talk about Forum stats like the proportion of lurkers to commentors and posters, since the increase in authorship is correlated with a jump in overall activity, but that data was not available. I think the positive trend could be exciting, but there has also been some discussion about quality of Forum posts dropping recently. Many of the people I write about had ideas that I think would add meaningful ideas to the current discourse, and don't seem to have changed their minds on this in the last few months. They don't have time Many people want to post, but struggle to find the time to write their ideas. Often, these are busy domain experts with valuable ideas and knowledge to share. For example, an acquaintance in the alt-protein industry told me that lots of useful information is not public, because the work on it is happening in the private sector. However, they didn't have time to write about this themself. Even if someone does (eventually) post their ideas, delays can be costly. A grantmaker I know wanted to write about the risks of megaprojects. They worried that megaprojects could turn out to be an EA talent sink, drawing people away from more resource-effective (if smaller) projects; but they didn't have time to write about this. If people are convinced, they might fund or take on fewer megaprojects and avoid the possible harms. I think that it's especially important to make it easier for time-poor people to post on the Forum. I've had many incredibly informative conversations with experts like this; it's a shame that their knowledge is not more widely available. They don't think they can meet the Forum's high standards Some people worry that because standards on the Forum are so high (rightly), they don't have much to contribute. A Twitter user writes: ‘given the opportunity cost of time and the frequency of high-quality posts on the forum, it seems possibly net negative to post anything that dilutes the quality'. Others say similar things: one felt that ‘the bar is so high for quality and finality'; another believes they'd have to ‘clear a very high bar'. They feel initimidated, nervous or scared about how their posts will be received (if at all) Lots of people feel intimidated about posting on the Forum. An acquaintance in the finance industry wanted to make the case for exploring the potential to nudge ESG criteria to be more EA-aligned, since it influences trillions of dollars of investments. Conversations with friends discouraged them; they felt like they ‘had to write a whole scientific thesis just to not be torn apart.' (This person was also time poor). Others ...
Pap smears sound uncomfortable, but they don't have to be! I know I have a bit of fear surrounding them as well. Listen to this candid snippet between Ameek and Dr. Vaidehi Mujumdar on decreasing your discomfort around pap smears. This is only a preview of our podcast with Dr. Mujumdar. Listen to the full thing "Everything You Need to Know About Pap Smears" on our page. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/brownwomenhealth/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brownwomenhealth/support
If you're a home gardener or live in an area where there's a lot of farming going on, you've probably heard of Roundup. In this Sidebar, Joe and Vaidehi discuss the ongoing lawsuits based on Roundup weed killer's potentially harmful side effects and why its maker, Monsanto, has a 50/50 record in these disputes so far.
वयं रक्षाम: में प्राग्वेदकालीन जातियों के सम्बन्ध में सर्वथा अकल्पित अतर्कित नई स्थापनाएं हैं , मुक्त सहवास है, विवसन विचरण है, हरण और पलायन है। शिश्नदेव की उपासना है, वैदिक - अवैदिक अश्रुत मिश्रण है। नर - मांस की खुले बाजार में बिक्री है, नृत्य है, मद है, उन्मुख अनावृत यौवन है । इस उपन्यास में प्राग्वेदकालीन नर, नाग, देव, दैत्य-दानव, आर्य-अनार्य आदि विविध नृवंशों के जीवन के वे विस्तृत-पुरातन रेखाचित्र हैं, जिन्हें धर्म के रंगीन शीशे में देख कर सारे संसार ने अंतरिक्ष का देवता मान लिया था। मैं इस उपन्यास में उन्हें नर रूप में आपके समक्ष उपस्थित करने का साहस कर रहा हूँ। आज तक कभी मनुष्य की वाणी से न सुनी गई बातें, मैं आपको सुनाने पर आमादा हूँ।....उपन्यास में मेरे अपने जीवन-भर के अध्ययन का सार है।... आचार्य चतुरसेन उपन्यास - वयं रक्षाम: Novel - Vayam Rakshamah लेखक - आचार्य चतुरसेन शास्त्री Writer - Acharya Chatursen Shastri स्वर - समीर गोस्वामी Narration - Sameer Goswami https://kahanisuno.com/ http://instagram.com/sameergoswami_kahanisuno https://www.facebook.com/kahanisuno/ http://twitter.com/goswamisameer/ https://sameergoswami.com
Lyrics:Kousalya Nandana Vaidehi MohanaRajeeva Lochana RamaYuga Avatara Parameshwara RamaAsura Nikhandana Kodanda RamaBharatagraja Sri Rama Parthi Pureeshwara RamaMeaning:The Lotus eyed Rama, the son of Kousalya, enchanter of Vaidehi is the incarnation of the age. Salutations to the bow wielding Rama who was worshipped by his brother Bharata, uprooter of the demon clan, now dwells at Parthi.
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: Apply to help run EAGxIndia, Berkeley, Singapore and Future Forum!, published by Vaidehi Agarwalla on May 21, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Apply to join the EAGxIndia 2023, the Future Forum and the EAGxBerkeley 2023 teams. The application takes 15 minutes and the deadline is Tuesday May 31st at 11:59pm Pacific Time. We are also seeking (separate application) volunteers to run EAGxSingapore 2022. Apply now! About the conferences Future Forum 2022 The Future Forum is a 4-day event running in San Francisco from August 4-7th 2022. We are concentrating 250 promising individuals from across communities there; drawing from Effective Altruism, Emergent Ventures, Silicon Valley tech, Progress Studies, and more. We want to arm many more of the world's brightest minds with the tools they need to tackle global problems, be it funding or great mentors. We believe the Forum can become a highly impactful event in this space. In our early stages, the Future Forum and surrounding community accelerated 20+ highly promising individuals through e.g. the EA ecosystem and Emergent Ventures, and led to the creation of 10+ start-ups and projects. For the main event, our first round of speakers & supporters includes, among others, Holden Karnofsky, Anders Sandberg, Daniela Amodei, Ed Boyden, and Jason Crawford. We are looking for more ops support to make this event happen well, with the core of work in June and July 2022. We are also excited about Event Leads who have organized a mid-to-large-scale conference before. EAGxIndia 2023 This is the first ever EAGx conference in India and will likely take place in early 2023. EAGxIndia will have about 200-300 attendees, primarily aimed at community members based in India, with up to 100 attendees for other groups, and also EA-adjacent Indian organizations that might contribute to and benefit from attending the conference. This event will be more introductory than other EAGx's, and the content will also be more targeted at addressing gaps that Indian members struggle with in EA such as localized career advice through career workshops, cause-specific career lightning talks and more. CEA has approved funding for this event and it is led by Anubhuti Jain and Pratik Agarwal, who are currently working on community building in India. EAGxBerkeley 2023 EAG SF is great for engaged community members but there are fewer ways for newer EAs to get involved with the EA community in the Bay Area, despite a fairly high awareness of EA in the area. I think an EAGx would be a good way to bring such people into the movement, and think it would have positive effects strengthening Bay Area university groups (such as UC Berkeley, Stanford and others). The application for EAGxBerkeley is run by me (Vaidehi Agarwalla) to help coordinate people interested in running this event, but I will not be taking on a leading role. Note: CEA has not yet approved this event but they have encouraged us to apply for funding. We will apply for funding once we have a team. These roles are a good fit for someone who: Wants to test their fit for event management, operations and community building Depending on team structure: Has the capacity to take on 5-10 hours of flexible work per week leading up to the conference Is able to work full- or near-fulltime 2 weeks before the conference Could be good fits for any of the following (specific needs will vary based on the location) Strategy (Goals, Metrics) Project management (Budgeting, Team lead, Evaluation Production (Venue, Catering, AV, Health & Safety) Admissions (Application review, Stewardship) Content (Speaker Selection & Liaison, Swapcard Manager) Communications (Emails, Marketing, PR, Website) Is organized, reliable, and handles crisis situations well You don't have to be super qualified, just capable and enthusiastic. Role l...
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: The availability bias in job hunting, published by Vaidehi Agarwalla on April 30, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. TL:DR; EA talent is currently suboptimally allocated, resulting in lower impact for the movement. There are many reasons for this, and in this post I talk about one reason: attention misallocation - and specifically, availability bias around certain careers and paths. Linguistic note: I will refer to career paths that are given the most attention in EA “highlighted paths”. The availability bias is “a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method or decision.” Many factors cause some facts to be recalled more easily than others (e.g. if the fact is recent, frequent, extreme, vivid, negative etc.) In the EA context, people exhibit the availability bias towards a small subset of very competitive, geography-limited, low absorbency career paths and roles (henceforth highlighted paths). How certain are we that this is actually happening? One proxy for understanding attention is to look at job applications. These are pretty strong signals of intent on the part of community members. Jobs at some EA-aligned organisations are notoriously hard to get and getting rejected from such opportunities comes with costs. The mismatch of attention and opportunities illustrated in the stylized sankey plot below: How does the availability bias work? Highlighted paths get disproportionate attention and status from the community, but cannot absorb enough people. The way that these opportunities are perceived and experienced creates the conditions for availability bias. Additionally, there are limited resources and support for other, higher absorbency paths so the lack of information and support around these paths further exacerbates the condition. It makes highlighted paths... socially acceptable EA changes peoples' perceptions of different opportunities. In particular, it raises the bar for what counts as effective. People consider a smaller set of opportunities to be acceptable and may feel like a given opportunity needs endorsement from the EA community to be acceptable. Because there are so few opportunities that are defined as clearing this bar, they get disproportionate attention. (socially) desirable As people get more involved with EA and deepen their engagement, the more likely they are to want direct impact as well. It actually is more desirable to work for an EA organisation because EA jobs provide scarce non-monetary goods such as: Social status Meaning-making / life orientation A sense of having a near-maximal impact Being part of a value-aligned group easier to access (not to actually get) Job opportunities for highlighted paths at existing EA organisations, feel more accessible because they are publicised repeatedly, concrete, and convenient. Repetition: You are much likely to apply if you hear about a role at a careers fair, on job boards, on social media and the Forum, and by referrals from group organisers and friends. Concrete: work at an org vs create your own role (e..g in policy this can happen) Convenient: Some publicity methods like job boards or career fairs make finding some opportunities very convenient. Curated job boards present you with relevant and up-to-date openings, are convenient to search, and appear comprehensive (sometimes listing hundreds of vacancies). Careers fairs give you the ability to network with staff from the represented organisations which both increasing the likelihood of people applying and may appear to (and actually) improve their chances of getting the job. It also makes it easy to anchor on such methods, because the alternative to a job board is to search up lots of organisations yourself, and the alternative to a careers fair is to...
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: Some benefits and risks of failure transparency, published by Vaidehi Agarwalla on March 27, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Key takeaways The goal of this post is to discuss some heuristics on when it makes sense to discuss our own and other's failures and mistakes in the EA community. I also recap the state of failure discourse in EA, including the recent interest and activity around red-teaming. (Read More) Benefits of failure transparency Building a more accurate map of the world so that resources are better allocated, we can identify and highlight trends in mistakes, and also help the broader world outside of EA improve. (Read More) Creating a strong and trustworthy signal of our values (Read More) Creating a stronger community (Read More) Risks and Costs Opportunity costs (Read More) Reputational costs (Read More) If we engage in discourse less responsibly, there is a risk of harming existing discourse norms, which could result in less failure discourse in the long run. (Read More) Transparency being used against you or unfairly advantaging others (Read More) When to engage in discourse When considering our own mistakes, keep in mind the relevance of the mistake, the value of information you could gain from reflecting further on it or getting external opinions, whether others would find it valuable, and if you're ready to hear your mistakes. If you're higher status in the community, it may make sense to have a lower bar for sharing mistakes. If you're in a competitive field outside of EA, it may be worth having a higher bar. (Read More) When considering others' mistakes, consider what you are hoping to achieve with the feedback, and how likely the other actor is to be open to feedback. Also consider whether the appropriate forum of engagement is private of public. It may also be worth factoring in the status of the actor you're criticising. If you choose to communicating publicly, be careful when expressing your level of confidence and extrapolating. (Read More) A few links that might be more concretely helpful when you're actually trying to talk about failure (Read More) Linguistic note: I refer to organisations and individuals collectively as “actors”. I also use the terms “failure” and “mistakes” somewhat interchangeably throughout this post. But I try to stick to “failure” for the most part. Thanks to Arjun Khandelwal for extensive copyediting and review, and Adam Gleave for brainstorming on whiteboards. Thanks to Nathan Young, Abi Olvera, Ben Millwood, Arjun & Adam for many (many) helpful suggestions and comments. I've tried to cite in the footnotes where possible but I'm sure I've forgotten a bunch! Introduction The goal of this post is to discuss some heuristics on when it makes sense to discuss our own and other's failures and mistakes in the EA community. I hope it provides a balanced and fair view of the considerations. Failures are pretty complex and can be caused by a lot of different things. Some are caused by mistakes that were knowable in advance, others by things that could not have been predicted or were out of someone's control. Some failures are related to not living up to one's values and causing harm to other people, while other mistakes negatively impact one's own productivity or growth without causing direct harm to anyone else. It seems like all of the above are valuable, depending on who is reading. People external to EA might particularly care about value-related failures, while those working at EA organisations might benefit from knowing how other organisations have made mistakes that negatively harmed their productivity. Failure discourse in EA currently This section might be most useful to those new to the community or interested in a summary of failure discourse in the EA community. The EA community can be keen to learn from ...
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: The BEAHR: Dust off your CVs for the Big EA Hiring Round!, published by Sanjay on March 24, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. [epistemic status: I wrote this post fairly quickly. I wouldn't be surprised if I've missed some relevant points, feel free to correct me in the comments] Over the coming two weeks, the FTX foundation will be making its decisions and likely disbursing $100m, possibly more. Let's assume that those funds are going to be spent on salaries (imprudent assumption) and that those salaries average $100k (probably a prudent assumption, I'd guess), and that no more than $100m is donated (prudent assumption)... . then there could be 1,000 EA jobs up for grabs in the coming months. As if I don't have enough eccentricities, I'm going to refer to the Big EA Hiring Round as the BEAHR. Has the EA community ever had this many new jobs created in such a short space of time? Not as far as I'm aware. As far as I know, it's as if a BEAHR from deepest darkest Peru has suddenly and magically turned up at a tube station. What does this mean for you, a potential applicant? Are you someone who has been thinking of getting a job in an EA org, but not gotten round to it? Now is a good time to get ready for the BEAHR! If you want to take action right now, you might want to prepare your CV. When I have hired for EA jobs in the past, I have requested a CV, but I have not been very prone to reject people for a bad CV – I've mostly used it as an indication of intent to apply, plus a useful reference point before the interview. This means that if you're the sort of person who agonises over whether your CV is good enough, you can relax. At least, assuming that other organisations take the same approach as me! If anyone wants to include further thoughts or advice on putting together your CV in the comments, feel free. Vaidehi provided some useful more general advice encouraging people to apply for jobs here. We will need the right infrastructure, including jobs boards. I am happy to report that I have used the 80,000 hours jobs board and found it to be a hugely valuable resource. It has led to a very high calibre of applicant, and a good quantity too. I'm hugely grateful to 80,000 hours for providing this great resource. However I have heard reports that people have had an inconsistent experience of using the 80,000 jobs board, and suggestions that it is underresourced. I also understand that 80,000 hours has been hiring for someone to manage the jobs board, so I very much hope that that person can hit the ground running and will relish the challenge of meeting the substantial needs for this resource. Even assuming that the 80,000 hours jobs board is functioning perfectly in the coming months, I still think that duplication/competition is valuable. I would love it if someone decided to quickly create and boldly market a new EA jobs board. This will be useful for the forthcoming BEAHR, and possibly for beyond. . and don't forget the Effective Altruism Job Postings facebook group! If you're not on that facebook group, I would encourage you to join it! And if you're on it, please check in on it. I predict that the BEAHR may make that space a bit more frenzied in the coming months! Does this mean the end of “it's really really hard to get hired by an EA organisation” Three years ago, a plaintive, heartfelt post struck a deep chord within the community, and became a hit on the EA forum. Will the BEAHR bring about an end to it being so hard to get hired? Sadly, not necessarily. I predict that some people will feel the great joy of getting a new job, but others will still experience a series of rejections without getting hired. And that this will happen for some very talented people. Why? Firstly, there is an idiosyncratic need that organisations have. It is really normal for me to...
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: Add randomness to your EA conferences, published by Vaidehi Agarwalla on March 4, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. TL;DR: Build in time for random spontaneous interactions with people at EA conferences! There is a lot of great advice on how to strategically network during EA Globals - and I think it's great to encourage people to be very intentional and goal-oriented with what they get out of the conference. However, I also think that deliberate randomness is also quite valuable (although higher variance). The chances that I'll randomly meet cool and interesting people at an EA Global is really, really high. What's more, my deliberate attempts to connect with people will heavily bias me towards : People I already know Who generally share my interests or worldview Who fill out their conference profiles or are otherwise 'legible' Who already know (of) me "Shop talk" 1-1 interactions (aside from workshops, most interactive EA events like professional or affiliation meetups tend to do 1-1 speed networking sessions) I find unstructured interactions without any expectations fun and enjoyable and a less intense than back to back 1-1s. I try to budget about 20-30% of each EA conference (sometimes more) for random interactions. Randomness in practice I find joining a group of people talking to be an inherently awkward experience. Luckily there are lots of ways EA conferences provide assisted serendipity! Physical Events Attending general speed networking events Not scheduling 1-1s for a 1-2 hours during lunch or dinners. You could join a table at random that has empty spots. You could also sit at an empty table and wait for other braver souls to join you! I've also noticed that conversations tend to happen near water fountains, washrooms & coat rooms (I think this is some combination of common area + lower social expectations + small enough group of people) Cause / Career / Affinity group networking sessions are semi-random Some people find it easy to join conversations that start up in hallways etc. Don't schedule things immediately after talks and speak with the other attendees Virtual Events In general, it's harder to have random interactions at virtual events. However, it could still be worth trying! Other than attending networking events, one strategy could be to randomly choose people on the networking app, say hi and let them know that you're trying to meet counterfactually new people. I expect this approach will be much higher variance / more time intensive than the physical counterpart but could be interesting! Examples (These are mostly personal examples because I didn't spend too long asking others - if anyone else has some examples, please comment or DM me and I'll add them here! ) I became very good friends with someone I met at a dinner group at EA Global, who later became a co-collaborator on a project for Effective Environmentalism David ended up co-writing a paper with Anders Sandberg based on a discussion after a Q&A session at a conference at the Global Priorities Institute. I had a very interesting conversation with an operations person at AMF about their job at my first EAG I have felt more comfortable reaching out to people I've met at least once, so this has expanded the number of people I can ask for help or introduce to others I felt like I belonged to the EA community because the people I met had similar perspectives to me (see here) 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: The EA Hub is suspending new feature development (with plans to retire), published by Vaidehi Agarwalla on February 27, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Key Takeaways In 2021, the EA Hub built volunteer capacity, made technical progres. During this period ~1500 people joined or were onboarded to the platform, roughly doubling from the 2020. (Read More) However, in Fall of 2021, after being rejected from the EA Infrastructure fund and learning of CEA's updated strategy in this space, we chose to suspend future work and plan to retire the Hub in the future. (Read More) The EA Hub will remain live with existing functionality until it is ready to be replaced with a new platform, at which point we are planning to retire it. We are working closely with CEA to ensure a smooth transition to the new system, and Hub users will receive notice at least 1 month before we shut down the Hub. (Read More) We are excited to see more work in the space of improving online connections. (Read More) Context The EA Hub is one of the oldest volunteer projects in the EA ecosystem. The first version of the EA Hub was started by the Local Effective Altruism Network (LEAN) in 2015, to provide an online platform for EAs to connect with each other as well as with EA groups, projects, and helpful resources. In 2015 the Hub had EA profiles and groups (and maps), a donation registry, links to actions for EAs to take, a nascent wiki, and hosted the results of the EA Survey. There has been limited interest from other meta organisations to do work in this space. The codebase was deprecated and the EA Hub was relaunched in 2019 with a new codebase and team. A new leadership team (Vaidehi, Victor & Seb) started work in Fall 2020. Starting in 2020 the Hub was fiscally sponsored by, but otherwise independent from, Rethink Charity. Our vision for the EA Hub was to be “an online platform that enables collaboration and facilitates connections between people in the Effective Altruism movement to make it easier to learn, network, collaborate on projects, and find career opportunities.” We believe that improving community infrastructure for projects, individuals, and groups will help initiatives build traction more effectively. Read more about our team's plans. 2021 in Review Our goals for 2021 included securing funding, developing new features, maintaining the existing platform, and improving our volunteer capacity. We also developed our strategy and coordinated with stakeholders. We made significant technical progress, with feedback from several EA community builders from around the world. The Hub profiles nearly doubled in 2021 to ~3200 profiles. Of the new profiles, we onboarded 700+ people from EA conferences in 2021, including EAG Reconnect and the EA Fellowship Weekend. We recruited and worked with a team of 5-6 volunteers (in addition to our core team) regularly contributing to the Hub in technical and non-technical roles. We applied to the EA Infrastructure Fund for the funds needed to reach the level of professionalism appropriate for this project. As we explain below, EAIF rejected us because they felt it would be less valuable because of similar work planned by CEA. After learning about CEA's plans, we deliberated and decided to suspend further work on the EA Hub. Our reasons for suspending development and plans to retire the Hub The main reason for our decision is that we found out that the CEA Online Team plans to introduce features on the EA Forum that would be similar to the EA Hub's. Background: The new Hub team (Vaidehi, Seb, and Victor) started work in Fall 2020 and were in contact with various staff at CEA from that point on to get feedback, coordinate, and share progress. In Fall 2020, CEA's strategy was not yet set and they were uncertain about their future plans. Based on the informati...
Did you know that cervical cancer is highly preventable and that January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month? On that note, the first episode of the Season 3 of Brown Women Health Podcast is here to cue you about the symptoms, screening schedule, and more! Around 13,000 people are diagnosed with cervical cancer every year. However, it is a preventable, high treatable disease associated with long term survival. Regular cervical cancer screenings such as Pap smears and HPV testing are very important for early detection and timely and appropriate treatment. In addition, early HPV vaccination acts as a key measure in preventing cervical cancer. There's an additional stigma associated with Pap Smears, especially in the South Asian community leading to the underutilization of these life saving screenings by South Asian women. We're joined by Dr Vaidehi Mujumdar, MD, in this episode, as we discuss cervical cancer, risk factors, and preventive measures. We also unpack how communities of color are disproportionately affected by these cancers and debunk the misconceptions surrounding Pap Smears! Tune in to this episode as you get your screening scheduled today! Follow Brown Women Health on https://instagram.com/brownwomenhealth, https://twitter.com/brownwomenhlth, or https://facebook.com/brownwomenhealth. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/brownwomenhealth/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brownwomenhealth/support
Lyrics:Kausalyatmaja Ram CharanVaidehi Priya Ram CharanHanumat Sevitha Ram CharanBharatarchita Sri Ram CharanAhalyodharaka Ram CharanPrashanti Niketana Ram CharanRama Charan Sada BhajoMeaning:Adhere to the feet of Rama O mind, the son of Kausalya, enchanter of Vaidehi, one who was served by Maruti, worshipped by Bharata and to the one who confers supreme peace.
There is a lack of knowledge around eating disorders and stigma within the South Asian community. The misinformation and stigma contributes to many barriers for South Asians seeking help when it comes to eating disorders. In addition to all of this, psychiatrists fear that the past year (lockdown) has caused a rapid rise in the number of people experiencing anorexia and bulimia. For many South Asian people suffering from an eating disorder and spending more time with family has had a negative effect. Listen to our podcast with Vaidehi Gajjar, a contributor and editor for Brown Girl Magazine, an advisor for Circuit Sehat PR Director for @wearesaath & @thecovidconversation, and an amazing author. We are so grateful to her for sharing her own journey with an eating disorder and her recovery. Follow Brown Women Health on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/brownwomenhealth/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brownwomenhealth/support
Can cancer survivors have children? How can survivors and current patients seeking treatment be more aware about family planning? What are some of the most important factors to look at? There are four subspecialties of Ob/Gyn, where one is the sub-field of Oncofertility. Listen to our chat with Dr. Vaidehi Mujumdar, MD, where we answer the above questions and more. Follow Brown Women Health on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/brownwomenhealth/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brownwomenhealth/support
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