I’m not a huge fan of this option because it doesn’t feel like my comparative advantage and I don’t like (and am not good at) splitting my focus like this.
If EA is vetting-constrained, then plausibly even though it doesn’t feel like my comparative advantage, it’s useful to the community if I spend time vetting things. But my impression from my brief stint in EA funds was that the funds felt more good-opportunity-constrained than vetting-constrained, and I don’t feel as well-positioned to address that bottleneck.
I’m in a similar position and I largely agree with this. One loophole is that I have a large set of friends who I might trust instinctively but that EA Funds’d need substantial convincing. With a little advertising I might be able to find projects that are below even EAF’s very-low barrier-to-entry.
I haven’t tried this out yet, though I’ve a colleague who seems to have had a good experience with it.
I’m in a similar position and I largely agree with this. One loophole is that I have a large set of friends who I might trust instinctively but that EA Funds’d need substantial convincing. With a little advertising I might be able to find projects that are below even EAF’s very-low barrier-to-entry.
I haven’t tried this out yet, though I’ve a colleague who seems to have had a good experience with it.