In-depth stories of people who had a lot of impact, and the rules of thumb they used / how they navigated key decision points, with the intention of drawing lessons from them.
E.g. Interview Holden or Bostrom about each key moment in their career, challenges & decisions they faced, and how they navigated them.
They wouldn’t need to be within EA. It would also be great to have more examples of people like Norman Borlaug, Viktor Zhdanov and Petrov, but ideally focusing on (i) new examples (ii) people who were deliberately trying to have a big impact, and then also with (iii) more interrogation of the strategies they used and how things might have gone differently.
You could write it up as a case study, podcast interview, or journalist-style story.
It would be like Open Phil’s history of philanthropy project, but focused on individual actors.
Though ideally it would contain a bunch more detail about the specific decisions they faced, what rules of thumb they used, how they’d ended up in a position to do this kind of thing etc. More critical analysis of their impact vs. the counterfactual would also be good.
In-depth stories of people who had a lot of impact, and the rules of thumb they used / how they navigated key decision points, with the intention of drawing lessons from them.
E.g. Interview Holden or Bostrom about each key moment in their career, challenges & decisions they faced, and how they navigated them.
They wouldn’t need to be within EA. It would also be great to have more examples of people like Norman Borlaug, Viktor Zhdanov and Petrov, but ideally focusing on (i) new examples (ii) people who were deliberately trying to have a big impact, and then also with (iii) more interrogation of the strategies they used and how things might have gone differently.
You could write it up as a case study, podcast interview, or journalist-style story.
It would be like Open Phil’s history of philanthropy project, but focused on individual actors.
Here’s an example of something in the genre: https://www.vox.com/22397833/dexamethasone-coronavirus-uk-recovery-trial
Though ideally it would contain a bunch more detail about the specific decisions they faced, what rules of thumb they used, how they’d ended up in a position to do this kind of thing etc. More critical analysis of their impact vs. the counterfactual would also be good.