“Is it too hard to do good through EA?” by Subha

This is a Draft Amnesty Week draft. As I prepare to post this, I’m happy to see that it's “Draft Amnesty Week” – I feel less unsure about initiating a thread without having read as much and heard as much from the conversations already underway, as I’d have liked to.  From the quick scan of posts tagged in “Building Effective Altruism”,  I can see that this post from Luke Freeman on “Big Tent” EA in May 2022 touches on some of the problems I’ve covered and triggered a lot of debate.  I hope the deeper exploration of solutions below can trigger action!Commenting and feedback guidelines:  I'm posting this to get it out there. I'd love to see comments that take the ideas forward.  TLDR: Problem The Effective Altruism (EA) landscape is complex and overwhelming, making it difficult for newcomers, especially mid-career professionals, to engage. This complexity leads to low conversion rates from [...] ---Outline:(00:07) TLDR:(02:06) 1. My initial challenges with EA(04:45) 2. The difference with High Impact Professionals(07:51) 3. Toward a Theory of Change(12:46) Theory of Change: Increasing EA Engagement for Mid-Career Professionals(13:12) 4. Your thoughts?(13:48) Appendix - Evidence of Relatively Low Engagement for 80,000 HoursThe original text contained 12 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. The original text contained 3 images which were described by AI. --- First published: March 3rd, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/bx5doQyudNZ62R3jP/is-it-too-hard-to-do-good-through-ea --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.