Confidence level: timecapped at around one hour. Mostly based on my own experience, first as a new, curious attendee at EA events, and later as someone trying to be helpful to even newer attendees at these events.

Looking back on my first EA events, a handful of 1:1s and interactions have stood out as being outstandingly useful in guiding my EA path. I've noticed that these were 1:1s where the more experienced attendee was not just answering my questions, but structuring the meeting in order to help me progress.

I remark that these are not always followed, and some fairly experienced attendees treat 1:1s with newer attendees like their other 1:1s. I think that if they applied some of the practices I describe below, they could provide even more value to people who reach out to them.

Some tips I apply:

• (Re-)read the attendee's Swapcard profile for 1 minute, just before the 1:1 starts.
  • Gives you a vague idea of what they already know and what they're less likely to know.
• Try to think of what you were not aware of in the first six months where you were focusing on your area (and extrapolate, from that [...]

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