Austin's Notes

Manifundraising

Donate Retroactively

Small business ideas for serving the gray tribe

Barriers to entry might be good

Post EA?

“Agent” economics

Web dev, after LLMs

What is play?

Can orgs be moral patients?

Where does the best writing happen?

Future SOTA model weights may be open

My brain is a simulator

Both sides of the story

Questions about conferences

Why I’m donating to Lightcone

Being alone vs with others

Welcome to Taco Tuesday

Firsts of 2023, Firsts of 2024

Leaving Manifold

Closed vs Open systems

Recommending Saul

Musings on Discord

Response to Erik Hoel on LK-99

Funding in EA: Grants, Loans, Equity

I love Rachel

Open

Things I’ve tried for a month

How EA funders can help grantees more

Christian songs I find inspirational

Taco Twosday retro

Questions about money

Dating Austin (of June 2022)

Writers I Follow

Ways I grew in 2022

Dating Compatibility Questions

In Defense of SBF

Ambition & Relationships

Forecasting Workshop (EAG DC 2022)

Learn technical things when you're young

EA Software Project Ideas

Outstanding issues with impact certs

Why 501c3 grants might be bad

Why impact certs might be really good

Being underclocked

Reflections on Manifold, 7 months in

What to do with $10m

You don’t need to be on web3 to be decentralized

Product < People < Process

Oshi no Ko and hard work

What EA can learn from startups

Your team should move from Google Docs to Notion

Should you be flamboyantly good?

What is liquidity?

Brag about what you did, not what you’re going to do

Institutional intelligence beats individual intelligence

New market types

What We Owe the Past

Prediction Markets & Addictiveness

Attention is money, money is attention

Effective Altruism & Catholicism

On meeting heroes

Biggest questions with Manifold

Thought Shapers

EA needs better software

Proposal: A Common App for EA Funding

Thoughts on blogging

Web is Fun

First Post

From inside acid

8 Tips for building your online party game

Storybook Brawl