congratulations to the Kairos team! 🥳

Who should read this: EA or AIS Groups Mentors

epistemic status: quickly written mini-memo, not Claude-generated 

I found lots of success with adopting this "Coaching" mindset framing going into my mentorship calls, that can strike the "firm but patient" balance: 

• this is possibly a (good) remnant from my past weightlifting-coaching backgrounds

1. accountability
   1. so much value of paid coaching clients is from the social accountability of showing up to the scary arena together
2. where you're coming from as a mentor...
   1. from a place of "i'm rooting for you and i want you to succeed which is why i'm giving you this feedback" and "i believe you can win the Olympic gold medal if you fix xyz"
3. give concrete pointers
   1. as often as possible, don't be nebulous
   2. eg. say less "go to gym"; say more "show up every Monday at 10am to 11am and do these five workouts, three sets of 10 reps each in this specific order."
4. points out errors with immediacy;
   1. build a relationship where error-correction is the norm
   2. eg. "[mid-screen share] ... wait wait go back, i think you should remove the picture of Terminator on the poster, because-"

leave mentees feeling like they worked with (an actual) coach and not someone they just answer to ;)

really excited to mentor this bunch who consistently get shit done. i hope to automate myself (what i’ve been doing with seeding AIS groups) away !

thank you for this post, i particularly like > Some information that I think should be published, but it’s not section 

[just leaving this resource here] speaking of gaps-in-need-of-founders, checkout our work at Atlas Computing: https://blog.atlascomputing.org/p/civilizations-maintenance-backlog

relatedly, we're also hiring for a Fields Strategist: https://jobs.80000hours.org/?jobPk=17895

i have spread it through most of my relevant whatsapp channels. 

congrats to the whole 80K team (Chana, Aric, Phoebe, Sam), keep shipping more!

[meta] it felt fine listening to this post with the baked-in audio feature on eaforum, as it was intended? (question mark)

[praise] thank you for asking specific questions others would be curious to hear about as well. excited for this series Gergo! 

🤘❤️‍🔥 Glad to see you posting this Josh! I imagine it’ll be helpful for future organizers who are also thinking about this :)