This really depends how broadly I define things; does reading the EA Forum count? In terms of time that feels like it’s being pretty directly spent on deciding, my sense is ~50 hours per year. That’s roughly evenly split between checking whether the considerations that inform my cause prioritisaition have changed—e.g. has a big new funder moved into a space—and evaluating individual opportunities.
I touched on the evaluation question in a couple of other answers.
How much time do you spend on deciding where to donate? Or do you mostly have enough trust to delegate to e.g. GiveWell in your decisions?
Relatedly, do you spend much time evaluating the donations from previous years for impact?
(As a smaller scale EtGer myself I often struggle with how much time I should be spending on these things, which are plausibly extremely important)
This really depends how broadly I define things; does reading the EA Forum count? In terms of time that feels like it’s being pretty directly spent on deciding, my sense is ~50 hours per year. That’s roughly evenly split between checking whether the considerations that inform my cause prioritisaition have changed—e.g. has a big new funder moved into a space—and evaluating individual opportunities.
I touched on the evaluation question in a couple of other answers.