Thanks for this post! It seems to me like quite an interesting and impressive overview of this important topic. I look forward to reading more work from you related to patient-philanthropy-type things (assuming you intend to pursue more work on these topics?).
A bunch of questions and points came to mind as I was reading, which I’ll split into a few separate comments. Sorry for the impending flood of words—take it as a signal of how interesting I found your post!
Firstly, it happens to be that I was also working on a post with a somewhat similar scope to this one and to Sjir Hoeijmakers’ one. My post was already drafted, but not published, and is entitled Crucial questions about optimal timing of work and donations. It has a somewhat different focus, and primarily just overviews some importnat questions and arguments, without making this post’s valiant effort to actually provide estimates and recommendations.
My draft’s marginal value is probably lower than I’d expected, given that you and Sjir have now published your perhaps more substantive work! But feel free to take a look, in case it might be useful—and I’d also welcome feedback. (That goes for both Michael Dickens and other readers.)
I suspect what I’ll do is make a few tweaks to my draft in light of the two new posts, and then publish it as another perspective or way of framing things, despite some overlap in content and purpose.
Thanks for this post! It seems to me like quite an interesting and impressive overview of this important topic. I look forward to reading more work from you related to patient-philanthropy-type things (assuming you intend to pursue more work on these topics?).
A bunch of questions and points came to mind as I was reading, which I’ll split into a few separate comments. Sorry for the impending flood of words—take it as a signal of how interesting I found your post!
Firstly, it happens to be that I was also working on a post with a somewhat similar scope to this one and to Sjir Hoeijmakers’ one. My post was already drafted, but not published, and is entitled Crucial questions about optimal timing of work and donations. It has a somewhat different focus, and primarily just overviews some importnat questions and arguments, without making this post’s valiant effort to actually provide estimates and recommendations.
My draft’s marginal value is probably lower than I’d expected, given that you and Sjir have now published your perhaps more substantive work! But feel free to take a look, in case it might be useful—and I’d also welcome feedback. (That goes for both Michael Dickens and other readers.)
I suspect what I’ll do is make a few tweaks to my draft in light of the two new posts, and then publish it as another perspective or way of framing things, despite some overlap in content and purpose.