There’s a group for Effective Altruists on Focusmate:
(Dony Christie) “The Basic plan creates the group, and any member who has not subscribed to the Focusmate service for unlimited Focusmate sessions ($5/month) will be able to do 3 free sessions a week with either members of the EA group or the general public. Basic costs $50/month total, which rounds out to $2.50/month per person we currently have interested, and we will get even more people once the group exists and is popularized.
If you wish for unlimited sessions with other EAs (imagine a highly focused 9-5 virtual workweek with a gamut of likeminded people!), then you can upgrade to their plan at your leisure. This looks like the better option to me as the cost of crowdfunding it in order to provide unlimited for everyone seems strictly inferior to people individually getting it themselves, especially as probably not everyone will choose to do more than 3 sessions a week or even continue using the service.
To donate to help cover this, you may paypal.me or Venmo me @Dony-Christie. Suggested amounts of $2.50/person if you’re willing, $5.00/person if you’re enthusiastic; send whatever’s comfortable for you. If I receive more than the first month’s amount then I will put the extra money towards the next month (assuming we continue the subscription to future months; I’ll pay it back if not).
Here is the link to join. On the dashboard, under ‘My Groups’, check the box on the left to toggle between showing sessions for just our group and normal Focusmate. I personally booked a bunch of sessions for next week that I’d love for you to join me at; the times are 12pm, 1pm, 4pm, and 8pm Pacific time/UTC-7 each day this Sunday to Friday. You might not see my name show up because some of the sessions have me booked with normal Focusmate users, but if you book one of those aforementioned times it will switch the booking to me (or any member of the group who’s booked at that time). You can also book any other time and other EAs may probably join you by seeing and clicking on your session, or if that fails to happen then you will be booked with a normal Focusmate user unless a member of the group then books that time as well and switches the normal user out.
Let me know if you have any questions, especially if you’re new to Focusmate! I will check in with all of you to make sure everything’s working, and write a user’s guide with best practices. Let’s work on big things together!”
You can do that on https://www.focusmate.com/
There’s a group for Effective Altruists on Focusmate:
(Dony Christie) “The Basic plan creates the group, and any member who has not subscribed to the Focusmate service for unlimited Focusmate sessions ($5/month) will be able to do 3 free sessions a week with either members of the EA group or the general public. Basic costs $50/month total, which rounds out to $2.50/month per person we currently have interested, and we will get even more people once the group exists and is popularized.
If you wish for unlimited sessions with other EAs (imagine a highly focused 9-5 virtual workweek with a gamut of likeminded people!), then you can upgrade to their plan at your leisure. This looks like the better option to me as the cost of crowdfunding it in order to provide unlimited for everyone seems strictly inferior to people individually getting it themselves, especially as probably not everyone will choose to do more than 3 sessions a week or even continue using the service.
To donate to help cover this, you may paypal.me or Venmo me @Dony-Christie. Suggested amounts of $2.50/person if you’re willing, $5.00/person if you’re enthusiastic; send whatever’s comfortable for you. If I receive more than the first month’s amount then I will put the extra money towards the next month (assuming we continue the subscription to future months; I’ll pay it back if not).
Here is the link to join. On the dashboard, under ‘My Groups’, check the box on the left to toggle between showing sessions for just our group and normal Focusmate. I personally booked a bunch of sessions for next week that I’d love for you to join me at; the times are 12pm, 1pm, 4pm, and 8pm Pacific time/UTC-7 each day this Sunday to Friday. You might not see my name show up because some of the sessions have me booked with normal Focusmate users, but if you book one of those aforementioned times it will switch the booking to me (or any member of the group who’s booked at that time). You can also book any other time and other EAs may probably join you by seeing and clicking on your session, or if that fails to happen then you will be booked with a normal Focusmate user unless a member of the group then books that time as well and switches the normal user out.
Let me know if you have any questions, especially if you’re new to Focusmate! I will check in with all of you to make sure everything’s working, and write a user’s guide with best practices. Let’s work on big things together!”
could I have the link? it doesn’t appear to have been copied over.
PayPal https://www.paypal.me/DonyChristie?locale.x=en_US
ah, I meant the link from “Here is the link to join.”
Yes, that link is the first reply.
I also shared the PayPal link out of fairness to Dony, who organizes the group.
I failed to see the first link and am embarassed.
https://www.focusmate.com/signup/EffectiveAltruism