posts
2026
2025
- With gratitude to the FTX Future Fund
- How to spend 100x more on safety?
- How to run your first conference
- Apply for funding in parallel, not serial
- Things that suck about building community
- What would it take to revive EA?
- Melding my mind
- What I admire or envy in others
- To found, or to invest?
- Questions about animal welfare markets
- On Loyalty
- Why do high-impact people choose to have kids?
- Why I love my competitors
- Why “guess culture”?
- Startup skills & where to learn them
- The structures of companies vs fields
- In favor of higher EA salaries
- Reflections on our wedding
- Attendee to organizer time ratios
- AI for Epistemics Hackathon
- Ada behaviors I love, at 8 months
- Naming things
- Leadership for introverts
- Selling yourself for fun & profit [QTB talk]
- The final retroactive funder is God (aka future ASI)
- Free, or very expensive
- Why not take a grant?
2024
- A space of our own, in SF [minifest]
- Notes from The Curve
- Donate Retroactively
- Small business ideas for serving the gray tribe
- Barriers to entry might be good
- Post EA?
- “Agent” economics
- Web dev, after LLMs
- What is play?
- Can orgs be moral patients?
- Where does the best writing happen?
- Future SOTA model weights may be open
- My brain is a simulator
- Both sides of the story
- Questions about conferences
- Why I’m donating to Lightcone
- Being alone vs with others
- Welcome to Taco Tuesday
- Firsts of 2023, Firsts of 2024
- Leaving Manifold
- Closed vs Open systems
- Recommending Saul
2023
2022
- Ways I grew in 2022
- Dating Compatibility Questions
- In Defense of SBF
- Ambition & Relationships
- Forecasting Workshop (EAG DC 2022)
- Learn technical things when you're young
- EA Software Project Ideas
- Outstanding issues with impact certs
- Why 501c3 grants might be bad
- Why impact certs might be really good
- Being underclocked
- Reflections on Manifold, 7 months in
- What to do with $10m
- You don’t need to be on web3 to be decentralized
- Oshi no Ko and hard work
- Product < People < Process
- What EA can learn from startups
- Your team should move from Google Docs to Notion
- Should you be flamboyantly good?
- What is liquidity?
- Brag about what you did, not what you’re going to do
- Institutional intelligence beats individual intelligence
- New market types
- What We Owe the Past
- Attention is money, money is attention
- Prediction Markets & Addictiveness
- Effective Altruism & Catholicism
- On meeting heroes
- Biggest questions with Manifold
- Thought Shapers
- EA needs better software
- Proposal: A Common App for EA Funding