![]() ![]() Katja is involved with effective altruism and LessWrong. ![]() Living in: Ward Street, Berkeley, California, United States He is a friend of Issa Rice from their days together at the University of Washington, and previously did contract work for me (having been recruited by Issa) details of the contract work can be found here. Professional website: Ethan Bashkansky is a recent graduate from the University of Washington and a private tutor in the Seattle area of Washington state. Living in: Seattle area, Washington, United States Sebastian has worked extensively with me, first on Wikipedia and then on Timelines Wiki, making timelines related to diseases and global health, transportation and communication, water, sanitation, and hygiene, and specific nonprofits and technology companies. Sebastian saw the solicitation on Facebook we were already Facebook friends at the time, having been introduced through Sebastian Nickel previously. He started work in April 2016 after seeing my solicitation for contract workers. Sebastian is a freelancer who currently works mostly for me. You can see the Donations List Website profile for Peter Hurford (note that the site is preliminary and not all data on it has been vetted). You can see the list of tasks sponsored by Peter here. Peter also sponsored some contract work done by Issa Rice and Sebastian Sanchez I acted as the payment intermediary for smoother handling of tasks and finances. In 2017, I corresponded extensively (primarily via Facebook) with Peter Hurford, primarily on topics related to GiveWell, the Open Philanthropy Project, global health, donations, and effective altruism. Living in: Chicago, Illinois, United States Work with Issa Rice to expand your imagination of what’s possible and learn what it means to truly offload the work part of your projects and still feel the excitement of making progress on them! He’s continually sharing ideas on a range of subjects, and offering solid critiques of my own. He is good at toggling between nailing down the little details and stepping back to ponder the big picture. He has proved an adept manager of both people and systems: he’s helped me coordinate contract work tasks I give out to others, and he’s helped manage and grow the codebases of many of my projects. He pushes back against unreasonable projects, and comes up with evidence-backed, better-for-all-sides alternatives to my ill-considered project proposals. Apart from thinking, coding, free-form article writing, and systematic tabulation, he shines at communicating and negotiating. I know I can bank on him for hard, bang-head-against-the-wall open-ended projects. Where needed, he’ll patiently get through mundane data entry with an eye for detail. I rely on him for drudgery, which he’s often able to speed up through his coding skills with Python, SQL, shell scripting, and numerous other languages and frameworks. I’ve paid Issa $40,000+ for contract work over the past two years. See also Issa’s lengthy piece on Cognito Mentoring and his note on cause prioritization on his personal website.īased on my lengthy experience working with Issa, I wrote a LinkedIn recommendation for him, that you can see on his LinkedIn profile. Issa started doing contract work with me in 2015 and ramped up the volume of work significantly around the end of April 2016. Starting around August 2014, after Cognito Mentoring had gone in standby mode, I began more one-on-one online interaction with Issa and I played a key role in influencing him to start the Cause Prioritization wiki, which he officially launched in November 2014. We had some email correspondence in the next few months. I first came to know Issa on January 1, 2014, when he contacted Cognito Mentoring, an experimental mentoring service that Jonah Sinick and I had announced on LessWrong on December 28, 2013. Other online projects: AI Watch ( GitHub), Cause Prioritization WikiĪs of January 2018, Issa is a freelance researcher who mostly does contract work for me (but may be open to other opportunities as well). Living in: Seattle area, Washington state, United States At the end, I list some others whom I don’t know that well but whose work I’ve found interesting and enlightening. I begin by listing some people I’ve collaborated with closely in the past or have regular current interaction with, and can provide more color on. ![]() ![]() This page lists other people whose websites you might be interested in visiting if you found my website useful or interesting. ![]()
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