I think this should be included in the Best Of LessWrong posts.
This post exemplifies the virtue of scholarship, of looking at every field and skillset as one more source of information. It’s well packaged into specific lessons and it comes from someone who can speak in both the Rationalist idiom and the local idiom. It’s also on a subject many of us are working on: EA and LW nonprofits do work alongside ‘normal’ charities, and it’s helpful to see their different views and frames. I’d be delighted by a dozen posts like this, field reports from other fields from the perspective of someone who spent years there.
Just the line “what is your fantasy partner/complement organization?” is worth having. It’s changed how I evaluate neighboring organizations, and how I try and prioritize my own projects. Think of it as a scalled up, non-profit version of YCombinator’s “Make something people want.”
I think this should be included in the Best Of LessWrong posts.
This post exemplifies the virtue of scholarship, of looking at every field and skillset as one more source of information. It’s well packaged into specific lessons and it comes from someone who can speak in both the Rationalist idiom and the local idiom. It’s also on a subject many of us are working on: EA and LW nonprofits do work alongside ‘normal’ charities, and it’s helpful to see their different views and frames. I’d be delighted by a dozen posts like this, field reports from other fields from the perspective of someone who spent years there.
Just the line “what is your fantasy partner/complement organization?” is worth having. It’s changed how I evaluate neighboring organizations, and how I try and prioritize my own projects. Think of it as a scalled up, non-profit version of YCombinator’s “Make something people want.”