80,000 Hours’ average cost per plan change this year was more like £300.
Yeah, I was looking for this year’s numbers because I figured it would have gone below £1000. But that’s impressively low, damn. One more point to economies of scale.
The cost of getting an extra plan change by running additional workshops is about the same, which suggests the short term marginal is about the same as the short-term average.
The online career guide and workshop keep getting better, and we’ve become more skilled at promoting them. The fixed costs of producing it all are now spread over a much larger number of readers (~1 million a year).
Yeah, I was looking for this year’s numbers because I figured it would have gone below £1000. But that’s impressively low, damn. One more point to economies of scale.
What drove the improvement to £300?
The online career guide and workshop keep getting better, and we’ve become more skilled at promoting them. The fixed costs of producing it all are now spread over a much larger number of readers (~1 million a year).