We really should have more opportunities to engage in depth-first networking and also touch more grass. Thanks for making it happen, Kes! 

Really excited about this, @Alfredo Parra 🔸  Good luck to you and the team!

Strong upvote from me, and I especially love this:

"We think more folks in EA should try to do their own small cost-effectiveness calculations for organizations that might get overlooked by the main funders. It takes some work, but there are a few benefits:

• Discovery is hard, you can help chip away at it. There’s a chance you’ll find an organization that’s been overlooked because it doesn’t fit neatly into the current funnel of evaluation."

This is REALLY useful info, thank you!

Interestingly, having come across this a couple of years into learning about EA and interacting with people interested in EA, I think my "proficiency" in some of these skills has increased. I expect that this is because I now have many friends and co-workers who are good at a lot of the things listed above. So it now seems "dumb" for me to not be agentic or to not have reasoning transparency.

I like this way of thinking about EA because I see it more like a process than an ideology. When I'm trying to explain to friends and acquaintances, I tend to say "I am interested in effective altruism," and talk about what trying to make decisions based on evidence and reason and expected positive impact could look like.