I really appreciate how this and the previous posts does a lot to describe and frame the problems that moving would solve, such that it’s possible to make progress on them.
I think it’s harder to clearly frame the problem (or clearly break a big/vague problem into concrete subproblems).
Anyways, some babbling:
Home
Redecorate or remodel
Arrange a furniture swap with friends and neighbors
Marie kondo your stuff
Give friends a virtual tour of your space and ask what they would change
Ask your friends for virtual tours of their spaces for ideas
Have a garage sale / get rid of a bunch of stuff
Buy land
buy a house
buy a condo
Work
Ask for a raise
Ask for a promotion
Interview at other companies
Get career coaching advice (80k / EA folks are pretty practiced at this!)
Give career coaching advice (showing up, as a professional in my 30s, to EA / early career events has been more fulfilling than I thought it would be)
Go to conferences in your field
Go to conferences in the field you want to be in (strongly recommend this)
Join vocational groups (meetups, etc) to connect with folks in your field
Give presentations about your job/work at vocational groups
Try moving around weekend days (wednesday/sunday?)
Try working from home (okay this would probably have been more useful pre-pandemic)
Change up your commute (bike or walk or public transit or drive or motorcycle)
Join a carpool with people you think are cool to be in cars with
Start a carpool with people you think are cool to be in cars with
Take an online course (bonus: get your work to pay for it)
Get a professional degree (online or night school or whatever)
Relationships (mostly not romantic)
Make it easy for other people to schedule 1:1s with you (calendly / etc)
Reach out to possible mentors you would want to have
Reach out to possible mentees (many people I know could be great mentors but are too uncertain to take the first step towards mentorship themselves)
Retire a mentor of yours that you’re no longer getting lots of value out of (but maybe still be friends?)
Start a book club
Start a paper reading group
Start a running group or gym group
Host more parties (post-vaccine)
Go to more parties (post-vaccine)
Join a monastery / religion / church / etc (not for everyone)
Start a religion / etc (I think the anti-digital movement has room for a neo-luddite group to coalesce, but thats a separate post)
Other
Find a counselor or therapist
Turn off your internet after dark
Go on a 10 day silent retreat
Spend a month in an RV
Travel much more often (for me this could be “travel at least 3 days every month” but for others could vary)
I really appreciate how this and the previous posts does a lot to describe and frame the problems that moving would solve, such that it’s possible to make progress on them.
I think it’s harder to clearly frame the problem (or clearly break a big/vague problem into concrete subproblems).
Anyways, some babbling:
Home
Redecorate or remodel
Arrange a furniture swap with friends and neighbors
Marie kondo your stuff
Give friends a virtual tour of your space and ask what they would change
Ask your friends for virtual tours of their spaces for ideas
Have a garage sale / get rid of a bunch of stuff
Buy land
buy a house
buy a condo
Work
Ask for a raise
Ask for a promotion
Interview at other companies
Get career coaching advice (80k / EA folks are pretty practiced at this!)
Give career coaching advice (showing up, as a professional in my 30s, to EA / early career events has been more fulfilling than I thought it would be)
Go to conferences in your field
Go to conferences in the field you want to be in (strongly recommend this)
Join vocational groups (meetups, etc) to connect with folks in your field
Give presentations about your job/work at vocational groups
Try moving around weekend days (wednesday/sunday?)
Try working from home (okay this would probably have been more useful pre-pandemic)
Change up your commute (bike or walk or public transit or drive or motorcycle)
Join a carpool with people you think are cool to be in cars with
Start a carpool with people you think are cool to be in cars with
Take an online course (bonus: get your work to pay for it)
Get a professional degree (online or night school or whatever)
Relationships (mostly not romantic)
Make it easy for other people to schedule 1:1s with you (calendly / etc)
Reach out to possible mentors you would want to have
Reach out to possible mentees (many people I know could be great mentors but are too uncertain to take the first step towards mentorship themselves)
Retire a mentor of yours that you’re no longer getting lots of value out of (but maybe still be friends?)
Start a book club
Start a paper reading group
Start a running group or gym group
Host more parties (post-vaccine)
Go to more parties (post-vaccine)
Join a monastery / religion / church / etc (not for everyone)
Start a religion / etc (I think the anti-digital movement has room for a neo-luddite group to coalesce, but thats a separate post)
Other
Find a counselor or therapist
Turn off your internet after dark
Go on a 10 day silent retreat
Spend a month in an RV
Travel much more often (for me this could be “travel at least 3 days every month” but for others could vary)