Thanks this reflection was really useful and demonstrated the extent of how d complicated and messy this kind of investigative work is practically and emotionally.
It might just be a personal thing, but this line near the end jarred with me a bit.
“i’m open to trades, and my guess is that if you wanted to pay Lightcone around $800k/year, it would be worth it to continue having someone (e.g. me) do this kind of work full-time.”
I’m not completely sure why this jarred, but maybe it’s that bringing in even tangentially an odd fundraising option for your org on the back of a messy and hard situation didn’t seem right. I’m also not sure trading a lot of money to do a job which you “don’t really want to do” is the best idea either.
Noted. FYI in my culture it’s considered pro-social to let people know what trades you’d be up for and what price.
Also, and there’s a good chance that this isn’t the main thing you’re responding to, but FWIW we’re not doing active fundraising any more (as we were successful at getting our basic needs met for continuing), so this isn’t like me trying to get my salary fundraised or anything like that.
Compensating the person sufficiently that they’re willing to do the work (because, ex, they don’t enjoy it, or it displaces other work they see as much more valuable).
Thanks this reflection was really useful and demonstrated the extent of how d complicated and messy this kind of investigative work is practically and emotionally.
It might just be a personal thing, but this line near the end jarred with me a bit.
“i’m open to trades, and my guess is that if you wanted to pay Lightcone around $800k/year, it would be worth it to continue having someone (e.g. me) do this kind of work full-time.”
I’m not completely sure why this jarred, but maybe it’s that bringing in even tangentially an odd fundraising option for your org on the back of a messy and hard situation didn’t seem right. I’m also not sure trading a lot of money to do a job which you “don’t really want to do” is the best idea either.
Noted. FYI in my culture it’s considered pro-social to let people know what trades you’d be up for and what price.
Also, and there’s a good chance that this isn’t the main thing you’re responding to, but FWIW we’re not doing active fundraising any more (as we were successful at getting our basic needs met for continuing), so this isn’t like me trying to get my salary fundraised or anything like that.
Thanks, appreciate the response and that makes sense.
$800k per year? For one person to do investigative journalism? What would all that money be spent on?
Compensating the person sufficiently that they’re willing to do the work (because, ex, they don’t enjoy it, or it displaces other work they see as much more valuable).
I read this as coming from a culture of listing “happy/cheerful prices”.