Nathan Young
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- @NathanpmYoung
- Co-Founder of the Coronavirus Tech Handbook, for a time the world's largest repository of tools relating to COV-19. Cited in over 100 articles eg here
- 2:1 Masters, mathematics, Durham University
- ACX grantee (forecasting), moderator (Metaculus).
Contact + Misc
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Projects I’m currently working on (add thumbs up to all those you think have the most impact)
- Effective Altruism (EA) information feeds - linking Twitter to Reddit to email 👍👍
- Twitter bots that retweets effective altruism jobs 👍
- An upvotable effective altruism jobs board
- Pushing for more Approval voting in the UK 👍👍
- Metaculus moderation 👍
- Metaculus forecasting tools & feature suggestions 👍
- Good Policy Ideas subreddit 👍
- Workflow tools upvoting board 👍
- Write a novella
- Write articles on different methods of improving institutions in the UK 👍
- Decision making tool for working out your weights
- UK policy community
- Get better at poker
- none of these
- [your suggestion above]
Past/current projects
Professional Experience (and largest consulting projects)
Current non-public projects - request a full CV here (WhatsApp, mail@nathanpmyoung.com or @NathanpmYoung)
Company Director and Consultant — Frostwork Media Ltd
- 2016 – Present
- Websites, marketing, graphic design, corporate strategy
- Self-motivated and self-managing
- Learned customer management, business strategy and coding.
- Major client, Bluesky Certification, now a significant player in the UK door and window certification market.
Project, Community Management — Turing-RSS Joint Lab
- June 2021 – Aug 2021
- Supporting community of 20 data scientists, with external talks
- Publicise work of the lab in government and epidemiological community
- Maintain knowledge between the laboratory and the Joint Biosecurity Centre within government
Project, Founder and Director — The Coronavirus Tech Handbook
- March 2020 – Aug 2020
- The largest online library of resources around Coronavirus.
- 600k hits, 4000 projects, 130+ sections.
- “Inspiring...and well-organised” - Dr Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Science.
- Media:
Project, Project Management — Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
- Sep 2019 – Dec 2019
- Built a list of individuals and communities ranked according to the ease with which we could contact them. Our team has since increased this to over 14 million people and organisations
- RSPB has taken our team’s recommendations forward in their Big Green Data strategy
- Project managed a team of 4
Residential Fellow — Newspeak House
- July 2019 – July 2020
- Researching systems change in civil society
- Helped create electiontechhandbook.uk, containing 150 tools and a community of >200 political technologists. This new community recently held their post-election debrief to measure impact
Always happy to chat, get in touch at mail@nathanpmyoung.com or @NathanpmYoung
You can book a video call with me here
Media