In Owen Cotton-Barrattās recent 80,000 Hours interview, thereās some discussion that felt to me interesting and somewhat relevant here (though it wasnāt 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, āOkay, I would like to create this change in the world. Now Iāll come up with a plan for that.ā Versus trying to be helpful and say, āLook, it just seems like it would be good if someone was providing this kind of information in this context, and then I donāt know how people will use itā, 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.
(Thatās just the start of the relevant partāhe then goes on to say more interesting stuff on that.)
In Owen Cotton-Barrattās recent 80,000 Hours interview, thereās some discussion that felt to me interesting and somewhat relevant here (though it wasnāt explicitly about theory of change diagrams). The most relevant part starts around 1:52:00, where he says:
(Thatās just the start of the relevant partāhe then goes on to say more interesting stuff on that.)