What you’ll get with coaching
You’re trying to change the world effectively over the long haul. If you optimize for the key priorities that move you forward, you have the best chance of doing just that.
Accomplish your Goals: I specialize in prioritization and efficiency, so we’ll help you accomplish your top goals effectively. Our goal is for your focused work time to yield results -- without you working yourself ragged.
Build Habits: You’ve tried using willpower to get things done. But to get the results you want, you need to nail your key habits. In each coaching session, we’ll make a step-by-step action plan to tackle your pain points.
Tailored Advice: Your coaching session guarantees you individual focus on your biggest problems. You’ll get strategies that work based on my experience in thousands of coaching sessions. Then I will help you experiment to find the ones that work best for you.
Accountability: You won’t just get advice; you’ll get the support you need to implement that advice. In addition to checking progress in each call, you can email me anytime with questions, schedule email check-ins, or use me as a referee for Stickk.com commitments.
See for yourself - the coaching will be quite valuable if it works well for you, so the information value is high for a 30-minute intro call.
Let’s talk
Book yourself in for your free 30-minute fit call. The fit call gives you a taste of what coaching is like with me while making sure we’re a good fit. You can ask all the questions you have about coaching and how I can help you. I’ll give you tips right away for tackling your biggest challenges.
If we both think coaching makes sense after the fit call, we’ll schedule your first four sessions and dive in. Clients commonly continue for 8 to 12 sessions.
$200 per call
Sliding scale available
FAQ
The most common areas I focus on are setting priorities to quickly make effective progress, and implementing work routines to devote focused time to your top priority. Other common areas are:
- Making plans and clarifying goals
- Balancing high standards with reasonable expectations so you accomplish a lot without burning out
- Setting up experiments to test what works best for you
- Todo systems so you can prioritize without feeling overwhelmed or accidentally dropping balls
- Big picture career and research planning
- Building robust routines and habits
- Helping work through big life changes and decisions
- Deliberate practice and skill building
One, I’m familiar with existential risk concerns and can discuss how they are affecting you or your career. Two, I understand how much you care about your impact on the world. My goal in coaching is to help you maximize your impact in a sustainable, healthy way. I won’t dismiss your desire to accomplish more or automatically tell you to work less. Third, I’m familiar with rationality concepts and CFAR-style tools, if you want those.
In most other respects, I expect the coach’s style and area of expertise to make a bigger difference than whether they are in the effective altruism community or not. I focus on productivity with an experimental approuch, which is quite different from a coach who will mainly focus on emotional exploration or interpersonal relationships. I'm also very blunt and direct. If you want a really gentle coach, I'm probably not the best fit.
If you think you might like to see a therapist, there is now a database of community-recommended providers that you can filter to find someone who fits your needs.
I can also help if you’re trying to get better in your current job. I can help you structure deliberate practice, carve out deep work time, and prioritize so you make progress quickly.
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to EA Grants, the EA Meta Fund, and the Long-Term Future Fund for supporting me in the early days when I was first starting coaching.