In Owen Cotton-Barratt’s recent 80,000 Hours interview, there’s some discussion that felt to me interesting and somewhat relevant here (though it wasn’t explicitly about theory of change diagrams). The most relevant part starts around 1:52:00, where he says:
I think that there are also pretty interesting questions about when to try and be strategic about what can I achieve here? And like, “Okay, I would like to create this change in the world. Now I’ll come up with a plan for that.” Versus trying to be helpful and say, “Look, it just seems like it would be good if someone was providing this kind of information in this context, and then I don’t know how people will use it”, but trusting that other people or information processing systems, which might be bigger than people, it might be communities will make use of the things which one is feeding into that.
(That’s just the start of the relevant part—he then goes on to say more interesting stuff on that.)
In Owen Cotton-Barratt’s recent 80,000 Hours interview, there’s some discussion that felt to me interesting and somewhat relevant here (though it wasn’t explicitly about theory of change diagrams). The most relevant part starts around 1:52:00, where he says:
(That’s just the start of the relevant part—he then goes on to say more interesting stuff on that.)