(1) Nope, first name is fine, as long as you’re okay with privately giving the Manifund team your real name for bookkeeping purposes.
(2) We’re pretty agnostic as to how the micrograntors view their strategies – one of our main goals is to stoke thoughtful discussion and get data not only on how the investments get allocated but also why. There’s something to be said for acting like you’re in a scenario more similar to that of a larger, more typical funder, but there’s also something to be said for the information value of spending the money you actually have and not having to pretend anything. So we’d be happy to read a comment or a retro saying “I’m making my choices imagining I have $50k because I want to send a signal about which projects I like the most, but if I didn’t care about that then I’d spend my whole budget in one place because I think my favorite project can easily absorb the funding,” or something like that.
(1) Nope, first name is fine, as long as you’re okay with privately giving the Manifund team your real name for bookkeeping purposes.
(2) We’re pretty agnostic as to how the micrograntors view their strategies – one of our main goals is to stoke thoughtful discussion and get data not only on how the investments get allocated but also why. There’s something to be said for acting like you’re in a scenario more similar to that of a larger, more typical funder, but there’s also something to be said for the information value of spending the money you actually have and not having to pretend anything. So we’d be happy to read a comment or a retro saying “I’m making my choices imagining I have $50k because I want to send a signal about which projects I like the most, but if I didn’t care about that then I’d spend my whole budget in one place because I think my favorite project can easily absorb the funding,” or something like that.