Bay Area tips

Other guides

• An EA’s guide to the Bay Area (note, it’s a bit out of date – e.g. Lightcone no longer has an office. But the “Useful Links” are still largely working.)
• Landing Club Guide (annoyingly they have put it behind an application wall…)
• A collection of rationality things in the Bay
  • Taco Tuesdays were fun
  • Sequences Reading Group interesting too

Coworking

• EA / rationalist / AI safety spaces in Berkeley
  • Constellation
  • FAR AI
  • Lighthaven
• Other recommendations for Berkeley (from Abiniyah, Ananya and William)
  • east asian library
  • Mind (matcha)
  • North Reading room
  • Morrison (no laptops)
• Ask around for a guest pass to Founders Inc, right at the top of SF
• In SF, privately owned public spaces

Accommodation

A lot of group houses don’t have an online presence, so message me if you’re looking for somewhere to stay and I might be able to connect you with others not listed below.

• EA Housing FB group
  • I posted there and nothing came of it but apparently some people have found it useful
• DirectorySF has lots of listings, message Neall Seth about it
  • they were kinda expensive when I looked last
  • also it might be shutting down? Not sure, but the Solaris office space it’s affiliated with is definitely closing
• This spreadsheet
  • I saw it on X but now the account has been deleted
  • haven’t done any diligence on these myself, so beware!
  • another recommendation in the same thread was Hive
• Arcadia
• One of The Residency houses might have guest rooms
  • e.g. sf2
• Others in SF
  • Mission Control

Practicalities

• Trader Joe’s is the cheapest place in Berkeley for groceries that you can reasonably get to by foot, but I learned at the end of my stay that it’s better to just use Instacart & get things delivered from Walmart

Events

• Michelle Fang posts about lots of events each week; in general look on lu.ma for public ones
• Recommended by others¹ and not tried by me
  • https://substack.com/@bayareafoundersclub
  • The Commons
  • Otherlab
  • Madsci
  • Stochastic Labs
  • Talks put on by Long Now (usually at The Interval)
    • The Interval is very cool just to visit (it’s right by Founders Inc office)
  • Noisebridge
  • BioPunk Society just opened and is putting on a bunch of events
  • SciSchmooze puts out a surprisingly comprehensive list of upcoming local science talks and meetups
  • Cerebral Valley
  • Restaurant | The Alley Piano Bar & Restaurant | Oakland (thealleyoakland.com)
  • Albany Bulb for the artwork
  • Alembic Events – The Alembic (berkeleyalembic.org) and their circling / “relatefulness” events
  • Chris Lakin’s events
  • South Park Commons