I found this conversation pretty enlightening - +1 to the takeaways above; many of them are applicable to any problem where technical solutions need to both be developed and deployed.
It’s pretty important to remember the marginal utility of dollars is not constant (contrast GiveWell’s health interventions); that damage can be highly non-linear (again contrast health interventions); and that small but smart philanthropy can have outside impacts by considering time/intervening early (contrast patient philanthropy).
Coming back to this—I made a transcript of this conversation for folks who’d like to read it / prefer text—https://ops101.org/archives/000353.html
I found this conversation pretty enlightening - +1 to the takeaways above; many of them are applicable to any problem where technical solutions need to both be developed and deployed.
It’s pretty important to remember the marginal utility of dollars is not constant (contrast GiveWell’s health interventions); that damage can be highly non-linear (again contrast health interventions); and that small but smart philanthropy can have outside impacts by considering time/intervening early (contrast patient philanthropy).
Thanks so much for doing this and great to hear you found it insightful!