“Historical examples of stewardship in EA” by JP Addison🔸

This is a Draft Amnesty Week draft. I wrote this very quickly for internal publication at CEA. It's generally kinda embarrassingly written, oversimplified narratives from my memory of events I was poorly informed about at the time. I’m hoping to slip this in during the Draft Amnesty Festival without too much embarrassment. Commenting and feedback guidelines: Corrections, differing memories, and differing structures of narratives all welcome, though I may not reply. Talent gaps Epistemic status: Even more so than the rest, the narrative got away from me here, and I might be overstating. You probably know “talent gaps” from all the discussion about the ways in which the concept is maybe mis-applied. Fine. But I want to tell you why the post was a landmark moment and the single most important example of steering in the community's history. It's fall 2015. JP is just getting involved in EA. [...] ---Outline:(00:08) Talent gaps(02:49) Operations push 2018(03:45) Wait... Effective Altruism could be a thing??(04:47) The creation of EA spaces(05:06) More case studies that I will leave for now(05:18) Themes--- First published: February 26th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/4SBK4c3xydCqYtixi/historical-examples-of-stewardship-in-ea --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.