EA - Announcing BlueDot Impact by Dewi Erwan

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: Announcing BlueDot Impact, published by Dewi Erwan on December 9, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum.BlueDot Impact is a non-profit running courses that support participants to develop the knowledge, community and network needed to pursue high-impact careers.The purpose of this new organisation is to increase the number of people working on solving some of the world’s most pressing problems in an informed way. We do this by building professional, scalable and high-quality courses. We aim to give participants the opportunity to engage deeply and critically with the literature on particular high-impact fields, meet and collaborate with others interested in the topic, and build an understanding of the opportunities to pursue a career in the space.We believe there are many great people who are interested in working on important problems and have the skills to contribute, but want additional support to take the career-switching leap. By bringing together communities of such people to engage with material on the field over a sustained period and explore the range of career opportunities available to them, we believe they are more likely to make this leap.BlueDot Impact spun out of Cambridge Effective Altruism, and was founded by the team who was primarily responsible for running previous rounds of the AGI Safety and Alternative Protein Fundamentals courses. We created a new organisation so that we could focus solely on the courses. Cambridge Effective Altruism is still around and doing great community-building work.We’re really excited about the amount of interest in the courses, and think they have great potential to build awesome communities around key issues. As such we have spent the last few months:Working with pedagogy experts to make discussion sessions more engagingFormalising our course design process with greater transparency for participants and facilitatorsBuilding systems to improve participant networking to create high-value connectionsCollating downstream opportunities for participants to pursue after the coursesForming a team that can continue to build, run and improve these courses over the long-termLearn more about BlueDot Impact here, and register your interest for future rounds of our courses here.Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.