EA - Celebrations and gratitude thread by Lizka

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Celebrations and gratitude thread, published by Lizka on September 2, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. TL;DR: Let’s post comments celebrating cool things people have been working on (you can share your own projects!). We often have high standards in effective altruism. This seems absolutely right: our work matters, so we must constantly strive to do better. But we think that it's really important that the effective altruism community celebrate successes: 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. We're humans: we're more motivated if we celebrate things that have gone well. So here's a thread to share things that have gone well recently. We encourage you to: Share some cool things that you've done recently! Share cool things that other people have done recently! Upvote others' comments, and thank them for their work. Share any other gratitude you have (to others or the world). There are many types of cool things: the estimated impact of your monthly donations, a piece you wrote that helped you to improve your understanding, a project that you completed at work, a paper published, or any small step towards improving the world. No step too small to share. Related: If you like a post, tell the author! What are you grateful for? Risks of omission and Why we should err in both directions Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.