I’ve never been able to find a heuristic for this exactly. We have made many decisions which we don’t love to call sacrifice, in fact many of them brought deep satisfaction and connection. These were made to live in better solidarity and community with those around us. For example for us this involved cooking on a charcoal stove, not having running water inside and eating a lot of local food which is often great but I don’t always love.
Almost all of these were made at the cost of efficiency in our work to some extent. Life without a gas stove and running water just takes longer and is a bit more tiring. Not nearly as big a deal as most people would think tho...
The closest we had to a “heuristic” was asking ourselvesevery 6 months, is this lifestyle...
1) Satisfying to me 2) Appropriate lifestyle that matched our community around us. We’ve always chosen to live among less well-off communities because I think it grounds our work in reality, keeps it real and helps us learn what actually makes people tick. (which I personally think is often critical to designing effective GHD interventions) 3) Allowing me to do my work well
As OneDay Health and my Wife’s work grew, I needed more time. No. 3 started to take precedence. We became more “bougie”. A water tap outside, more eating out (still local food). Now after having a kid we have a gas stove. It doesn’t feel great to move further away from our community lifestyle, but I think its worth it for the impact—as long as we don’t feel too disconnected from those around us.
I’ve never been able to find a heuristic for this exactly. We have made many decisions which we don’t love to call sacrifice, in fact many of them brought deep satisfaction and connection. These were made to live in better solidarity and community with those around us. For example for us this involved cooking on a charcoal stove, not having running water inside and eating a lot of local food which is often great but I don’t always love.
Almost all of these were made at the cost of efficiency in our work to some extent. Life without a gas stove and running water just takes longer and is a bit more tiring. Not nearly as big a deal as most people would think tho...
The closest we had to a “heuristic” was asking ourselvesevery 6 months, is this lifestyle...
1) Satisfying to me
2) Appropriate lifestyle that matched our community around us. We’ve always chosen to live among less well-off communities because I think it grounds our work in reality, keeps it real and helps us learn what actually makes people tick. (which I personally think is often critical to designing effective GHD interventions)
3) Allowing me to do my work well
As OneDay Health and my Wife’s work grew, I needed more time. No. 3 started to take precedence. We became more “bougie”. A water tap outside, more eating out (still local food). Now after having a kid we have a gas stove. It doesn’t feel great to move further away from our community lifestyle, but I think its worth it for the impact—as long as we don’t feel too disconnected from those around us.