This is a cool writeup! I really enjoyed reading it, thanks for sharing and congrats on failing fast on your first charity—it sounds like you did a bunch of ambitious work and made a tough call fairly quickly :)
Things I like about your writing style:
You write with such a high degree of reasoning transparency, I feel like I could really follow your takes on what happened and why throughout, e.g. the story of “Ren made this spreadsheet with these constraints, and these were the results and why we chose this focus area”—super narratively clear. I feel like you give detail / add color in a way that really helps with epistemic legibility, which I really appreciate / admire :)
A bunch of moments made me laugh out loud despite the sad underlying topic, e.g., “We also made sure to enjoy our trip and tried some Turkish coffee and petted some of the stray cats.” (Awwww), “Also, we realized that some of our questions could be answered using publicly available aerial imagery and spatial data. This was a perk of Ren being a data nerd.” (Hahaha 💜 love data nerdery)
Like others I appreciate how candid this writeup is and your willingness to share vulnerable moments with the forum :) I feel like I’ve gained better models of what early stage outreach startups go through by reading this post, thank you
This is a cool writeup! I really enjoyed reading it, thanks for sharing and congrats on failing fast on your first charity—it sounds like you did a bunch of ambitious work and made a tough call fairly quickly :)
Things I like about your writing style:
You write with such a high degree of reasoning transparency, I feel like I could really follow your takes on what happened and why throughout, e.g. the story of “Ren made this spreadsheet with these constraints, and these were the results and why we chose this focus area”—super narratively clear. I feel like you give detail / add color in a way that really helps with epistemic legibility, which I really appreciate / admire :)
A bunch of moments made me laugh out loud despite the sad underlying topic, e.g., “We also made sure to enjoy our trip and tried some Turkish coffee and petted some of the stray cats.” (Awwww), “Also, we realized that some of our questions could be answered using publicly available aerial imagery and spatial data. This was a perk of Ren being a data nerd.” (Hahaha 💜 love data nerdery)
Like others I appreciate how candid this writeup is and your willingness to share vulnerable moments with the forum :) I feel like I’ve gained better models of what early stage outreach startups go through by reading this post, thank you