Reducing amount of time productive people spend doing paperwork
Economic Growth, Research That Can Help Us Improve
One example is productive researchers working in high-impact fields who are forced to write copious paperwork for grants. Another is filing taxes. Funding various approaches to reduce this problem, such as research on optimal streamlining of grant decision processes, nonprofits/volunteers/crowdsourced advice for helping fill out paperwork like taxes, improving pipelines into lab managers/personal assistants to high-productivity researchers, etc. could potentially be impactful.
Reducing amount of time productive people spend doing paperwork
Economic Growth, Research That Can Help Us Improve
One example is productive researchers working in high-impact fields who are forced to write copious paperwork for grants. Another is filing taxes. Funding various approaches to reduce this problem, such as research on optimal streamlining of grant decision processes, nonprofits/volunteers/crowdsourced advice for helping fill out paperwork like taxes, improving pipelines into lab managers/personal assistants to high-productivity researchers, etc. could potentially be impactful.