September 10th, 2022: Greetings from Lisbon! I’m getting in great shape wandering the steep roads of the city, averaging about 30-35 flights a day. This week we went and explored a bit and I was blown away by Jeronimo’s Monastery right outside the city. Seen below in a couple pictures that don’t really do it justice is a building that took about 100 years to build, starting in 1501. As an American who is used to seeing things built in 1980 being described as old, I am always blown away by the visible history of the past in Europe.
I actually found out about your work from Angie's essay on Write of Passage 's page - 100% can relate with the experiences of being an outsider in the US as an ex-international student myself. It took a lot of guts and strength to go against the current and find one's footing here being from such a different culture. Props to Angie and you for supporting her, that's awesome.
I stumbled across the EA movement only very recently and it made me immediately raise my eyebrows quite a few times.
On one hand, the tones sounded eerily similar to any "lifestyle maximization" trend out there.
On the other hand, one really can't help but notice a huge lack of diversity in the community, or at least the most vocal parts of the community — more than EA, it seems more like PP, Privileged Philanthropy.
Thanks for sharing Tyler's essay, I'm definitely going to read it, the "good ideas going bad" subject is always quite interesting.
My cynicism towards EA has been brewing for a long-time haha so thanks for vocalising this. Once again showing why you're such a uniquely authentic human being Paul.
I used to work in an overseas charity and saw a lot of our attempts were ineffective - that a lot of money not only goes to waste, but makes things worse. Then I started doing work in alternative education, and noticed I was accidentally feeding young people just my own narrative of success, painted in new colours by my ego.
It's impossible to calculate where you can have effective impact - these things are complex and non-linear. E.g. the parents of anyone you admire probably changed the world most, yet without trying it.
Perhaps we don't need to change things, perhaps we just need to understand.
This is great, thanks for sharing Angie's story as well!
I actually found out about your work from Angie's essay on Write of Passage 's page - 100% can relate with the experiences of being an outsider in the US as an ex-international student myself. It took a lot of guts and strength to go against the current and find one's footing here being from such a different culture. Props to Angie and you for supporting her, that's awesome.
Totally agree! Thanks for the kind words
I stumbled across the EA movement only very recently and it made me immediately raise my eyebrows quite a few times.
On one hand, the tones sounded eerily similar to any "lifestyle maximization" trend out there.
On the other hand, one really can't help but notice a huge lack of diversity in the community, or at least the most vocal parts of the community — more than EA, it seems more like PP, Privileged Philanthropy.
Thanks for sharing Tyler's essay, I'm definitely going to read it, the "good ideas going bad" subject is always quite interesting.
Paul will we see you in Cohort 9? Hope so! Angie brings such a great energy to the group.
My cynicism towards EA has been brewing for a long-time haha so thanks for vocalising this. Once again showing why you're such a uniquely authentic human being Paul.
I used to work in an overseas charity and saw a lot of our attempts were ineffective - that a lot of money not only goes to waste, but makes things worse. Then I started doing work in alternative education, and noticed I was accidentally feeding young people just my own narrative of success, painted in new colours by my ego.
It's impossible to calculate where you can have effective impact - these things are complex and non-linear. E.g. the parents of anyone you admire probably changed the world most, yet without trying it.
Perhaps we don't need to change things, perhaps we just need to understand.