“What I’m celebrating from EA and adjacent work in 2024” by Emma Lou

<p> As 2024 draws to a close, I’m reflecting on the work and stories that inspired me this year: those from the effective altruism community, those I found out about through EA-related channels, and those otherwise related to EA.</p><p> I’ve appreciated the celebration of wins and successes over the past few years from @Shakeel Hashim's posts in 2022 and 2023. As @Lizka and @MaxDalton put very well in a post in 2022:</p><p> We often have high standards in effective altruism. This seems absolutely right: our work matters, so we must constantly strive to do better.</p><p> But we think that it's really important that the effective altruism community celebrate successes:</p><ul> <li> If we focus too much on failures, we incentivize others/ourselves to minimize the risk of failure, and we will probably be too risk averse.</li><li> We're humans: we're more motivated if we celebrate things that have gone well.</li></ul><p> Rather than attempting [...]</p> <p>---</p><p><strong>Outline:</strong></p><p>(01:51) What progress in the world did you find exciting?</p><p>(03:11) What individual stories inspired you?</p><p>(04:26) What popular media or articles did you appreciate?</p><p>(05:37) What writing from this year did you appreciate or find compelling?</p><p>(06:15) What made you grateful or excited to be involved in or related to effective altruism?</p> <p>---</p> <p><b>First published:</b><br/> December 31st, 2024 </p> <p><b>Source:</b><br/> <a href="https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/SkfMyerJ5bGK7scnW/what-i-m-celebrating-from-ea-and-adjacent-work-in-2024?utm_source=TYPE_III_AUDIO&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_content=Source+URL+in+episode+description&utm_campaign=ai_narration" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/SkfMyerJ5bGK7scnW/what-i-m-celebrating-from-ea-and-adjacent-work-in-2024</a> </p> <p>---</p> <p>Narrated by <a href="https://type3.audio/?utm_source=TYPE_III_AUDIO&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_content=Narrated+by+TYPE+III+AUDIO&utm_term=ea_forum&utm_campaign=ai_narration" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TYPE III AUDIO</a>.</p> <p>---</p><div style="max-width: 100%";><p><strong>Images from the article:</strong></p><a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/cea/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/mirroredImages/SkfMyerJ5bGK7scnW/xohsqhet4qxtbb5q9eua" target="_blank"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/cea/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/mirroredImages/SkfMyerJ5bGK7scnW/xohsqhet4qxtbb5q9eua" alt="" style="max-width: 100%;" /></a><p><em>Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try <a href="https://pocketcasts.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Pocket Casts</a>, or another podcast app.</em></p></div>