memoir: email review up to September 2020

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 [TODO SECTION: Anna Michael feud
-  * This may have been less effective than it was in my head; I _remembered_ Michael as being high-status
+  * This may have been less effective than it was in my head; _I remembered_ Michael as being high-status
  * Anna's 2 Mar comment badmouthing Michael
  * my immediate response: I strongly agree with your point about "ridicule of obviously-fallacious reasoning plays an important role in discerning which thinkers can (or can't) help fill these functions"! That's why I'm so heartbroken about the "categories are arbitrary, therefore trans women are women" thing, which deserves to be laughed out of the room.
+ * "sacrificed all hope of success in favor of maintaining his own sanity by CC'ing you guys"
  * Anna's case against Michael: he was talking to Devi even when Devi needed a break, and he wanted to destroy EA
  * I remember at a party in 2015ish, asking Michael what else I should invest my money in, if not New Harvest/GiveWell, and his response was, "You"
  * backstory of anti-EA sentiment: Ben's critiques, Sarah's "EA Has a Lying Problem"—Michael had been in the background