We asked our community what resources they would recommend. Here’s what they said.

Effective Altruism (EA)

• Introduction to Effective Altruism: A comprehensive introduction to Effective Altruism.

• EA Concepts: A concept map.

• Helen Toner - Effective Altruism is a Question (not an ideology)

• EA Virtual Programs

• 80,000 Podcast: Podcast on effective altruism and careers, featuring guests from a wide variety of career paths.

• Effective Altruism Forum: A Forum for the Effective Altruism Community.

• Charity Entrepreneurship (CE) Resources: On this page, CE collect the most useful resources about topics relevant to starting and running your own effective organization.

• Kelsey Piper: Her work on Future Perfect and her blog The Unit of Caring.

• Connect and Keep Up to Date by the EA Hub: This page has links to newsletters, fora, Facebook groups, podcasts and other ways of keeping connected.

• List of EA-related organisations WANBAM Youtube: A playlist of presentations, fireside chats, and panel discussions by women, trans people of any gender, and non-binary people at Effective Altruism Global (EA Global) and Effective Altruism Global X (EAGx) from 2016 to 2020.

Community Building

• How to run a high-energy reading group - EA Forum

Career Advice

• Pollinate: "thoughts on work, life, learning, and everything in between."

• 80, 000 Hours List of evidence for how to be successful in any job.

• Ask A Manager Blogs on a variety of topics from the chief of staff for a successful nonprofit.

Finding Jobs

• 80,000 Hours Job Board: Presents high-impact vacancies.

• EA Work Club: A website for “High-impact jobs and side projects for effective altruists.”

• Effective Altruism Job Postings: Facebook Page- “Post job openings relevant to effective altruism here!”

• I’ve read 1000+ cover letters, and THIS is what will get you the interview and 3 Step EASY Cover Letter - Recruiter Reveals BEST Way to Stand Out by Madeline Mann

• The Powerful Formula to Answer the Most Common Interview Questions (Story Toolbox) by Self Made Millennial

• Why You?: 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again

Resources on Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)

• re:Work: Resources by Google, including on OKRs, including Google's OKR Playbook.

• What Matters: "Get Started With OKRs, Your step-by-step guide for setting and achieving audacious goals."

• The beginner's guide to OKR

• Why the secret to success is setting the right goals

• Measure What Matters

• Radical Focus

Health and well-being

• Psychology Tools: A “ reliable source of psychological self-help for the public.”

• The Uplift App: A comprehensive app for depression based on cognitive behavioral therapy.

• BrightMind: “BrightMind helps you quickly move beyond the beginner level of meditation practice through customized and practical instruction.”

• Burnout: What is it and how to treat it: An EA Forum post on Burnout, what is it? What can individuals do to avoid it and what can organizations do to help their staff?

• Maintaining motivation | EA Global: Reconnect 2021 Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel By Changing the Way You Think

• The CBT Workbook for Perfectionism: Evidence-Based Skills to Help You Let Go of Self-Criticism, Build Self-Esteem, and Find Balance

• Delivered from Distraction: Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder How To Control Your Anxiety Before It Controls You

• A New Guide to Rational Living

• Superhuman by Habit: A Guide to Becoming the Best Possible Version of Yourself, One Tiny Habit at a Time

• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

• The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done

• Clearer Thinking: "Join Spencer Greenberg each week as he has fun, in-depth conversations with brilliant people, exploring useful ideas related to psychology, society, behavior change, philosophy, science, artificial intelligence, math, economics, self-help, mental health, and technology."

• How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices

• Anatomy of Work Imposter Syndrome

Management and Leadership

• The Manager Tools: Podcasts, training tools, and opportunities for building management skills.

• The Effective Executive (by Peter Drucker): “The measure of the executive, Peter F. Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive. Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that mold them into results.”

• The Little Black Book of Success: Laws of Leadership for Black Women

• The Management Center:"We help leaders working for social change build and run more effective, equitable, and sustainable organizations."

• Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well

Start-ups

• Village Global: Venture capital podcast.

• Haseeb Qureshi's blog: “The Breaking Into Startups Podcast is a platform featuring inspiring stories of people who broke into tech from non-traditional backgrounds.”

Productivity

• Amazing Marvin: “Marvin incorporates principles from behavioral psychology to help you beat procrastination, feel in control and finish your to-do list.”

• Focusmate: “Focusmate virtual coworking helps you get things done.”

• Complice.co:“Daily Progress & Accountability. Every night Complice compiles your day’s actions alongside each of your goals, making it easy to reflect on the progress you have made. ”

• Habitica:“Habitica is a free habit and productivity app that treats your real life like a game. Habitica can help you achieve your goals to become healthy and happy.”

• How to get things done - David Allen: “Allen's premise is simple: our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax.”

• So Good They Can't Ignore You (by Cal Newport): “In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice. Not only is the cliché flawed-preexisting passions are rare and have little to do with how most people end up loving their work-but it can also be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping.”

Setting boundaries

• When I Say No, I Feel Guilty by by Manuel J. Smith.

• Rise: 3 Practical Steps for Advancing Your Career, Standing Out as a Leader, and Liking Your Life by Patty Azzarello and Keith Ferrazzi: A straight-shooting Silicon Valley executive reveals insider career strategies to becoming a great leader, developing your network, succeeding without wasting time, and managing trade-offs between your work and life so your life works.

• Sustainable motivation | Helen Toner | EA Global: San Francisco 2019.

• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown:Greg draws on experience and insight from working with the leaders of the most innovative companies in the world to show how to achieve the disciplined pursuit of less.

• Nonviolent Communication (A Language of Life)

Setting up organizations

• The National Council of Nonprofits:Tools and resources of a “Trusted resource and proven advocate for America’s charitable nonprofits.”

• Haseeb Qureshi's blog: “The Breaking Into Startups Podcast is a platform featuring inspiring stories of people who broke into tech from non-traditional backgrounds.”

• Modern nonprofit board governance -- passion is not enough!

Thinking well about-

International Development

• GiveWell’s criteriafor how they recommend extraordinary nonprofits in the international development space.

• Esther Duflo's TED talk: On randomized controlled trials.

• Poor Economics: “Poor Economics shows that creating a world without poverty begins with understanding the daily decisions facing the poor.”

Biosecurity

• A Biosecurity and Biorisk Reading+ List on the EA Forum

Rationality

• Slate Star Codex: A project by Scott Alexander, a psychiatrist on the US West Coast that covers topic areas within science, medicine, philosophy, politics, and futurism.

• RationallySpeaking: The bi-weekly podcast of New York City Skeptics.