In addition to the review, we also made our targets for continued delivery, which included surpassing our stretch goal for the advising team due to Habiba packing in a lot of calls:
The most important content we released was How to plan your career. The other releases were:
Tristan Harris on the need to change the incentives of social media companies
Benjamin Todd on what the effective altruism community most needs
Russ Roberts on whether it’s more effective to help strangers, or people you know
Hilary Greaves on Pascal’s mugging, strong longtermism, and whether existing can be good for us
Benjamin Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it
We hired and onboarded Sashika Coxhead as junior operations specialist. We also started an engineering hiring round and made one offer, though it wasn’t accepted.
Some other progress to flag:
Job board delivery continued at a good pace, listing 334 vacancies and getting 19,161 clicks, just a little below average despite the annual review.
We also set up software to monitor all the website pages we draw jobs from and started working with a team of virtual assistants in India to help listing vacancies, roughly halving the amount of time Maria spends per vacancy.
Headhunting submitted 65 candidates to organisations which has so far resulted in 3 placements at Open Philanthropy, the Governance of AI programme at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute, and a policy non-profit in Washington, DC.
Reached practical completion of the renovations we made to the office.
Completed our annual internal feedback round.
Took some holiday.
Started planning 2021.