Pardon my negativity, but I get the impression that you haven’t thought through your impact model very carefully.
In particular, the structure where
Every week, an anonymous team of grantmakers rank all participants, and whoever accomplished the least morally impactful work that week will be kicked off the island.
is selecting for mediocrity.
Given fat tails, I expect more impact to come from the single highest impact week than from 36 weeks of not-last-place impact.
Perhaps for the season finale you could bring back the contestant who had the highest impact week of the season and have them face off against the last survivor. That could also make for more exciting television than whatever you had planned for the 36th episode.
Pardon my negativity, but I get the impression that you haven’t thought through your impact model very carefully.
In particular, the structure where
is selecting for mediocrity.
Given fat tails, I expect more impact to come from the single highest impact week than from 36 weeks of not-last-place impact.
Perhaps for the season finale you could bring back the contestant who had the highest impact week of the season and have them face off against the last survivor. That could also make for more exciting television than whatever you had planned for the 36th episode.
Seems like it’s more important to encourage discussions-about-impact than it is to encourage impact directly
But I’m not sure, I don’t even own a TV