“You can be very helpful to first-timers at EA events” by JoA🔸

Confidence level: timecapped at around one hour. Mostly based on my own experience, first as a new, curious attendee at EA events, and later as someone trying to be helpful to even newer attendees at these events. Looking back on my first EA events, a handful of 1:1s and interactions have stood out as being outstandingly useful in guiding my EA path. I've noticed that these were 1:1s where the more experienced attendee was not just answering my questions, but structuring the meeting in order to help me progress. I remark that these are not always followed, and some fairly experienced attendees treat 1:1s with newer attendees like their other 1:1s. I think that if they applied some of the practices I describe below, they could provide even more value to people who reach out to them. Some tips I apply: (Re-)read the attendee's Swapcard profile for 1 minute, just before the 1:1 starts. Gives you a vague idea of what they already know and what they're less likely to know. Try to think of what you were not aware of in the first six months where you were focusing on your area (and extrapolate, from that [...] --- First published: December 11th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/edRFXcnwnCjyNqy67/you-can-be-very-helpful-to-first-timers-at-ea-events --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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