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Ben Kuhn

Karma: 3,028

I’m the CTO of Wave. We build financial infrastructure for unbanked people in sub-Saharan Africa.

Personal site (incl various non-EA-related essays): https://​​www.benkuhn.net/​​

Email: ben dot s dot kuhn at the most common email address suffix

There is now an EA Man­agers Slack

Ben Kuhn9 Jan 2023 15:48 UTC
40 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Some notes on com­mon challenges build­ing EA orgs

Ben Kuhn3 Dec 2022 3:00 UTC
211 points
26 comments4 min readEA link

Want ad­vice on man­age­ment/​or­ga­ni­za­tion-build­ing?

Ben Kuhn15 Nov 2022 3:40 UTC
141 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

The biggest risk of free-spend­ing EA is not op­tics or mo­ti­vated cog­ni­tion, but grift

Ben Kuhn14 May 2022 2:13 UTC
179 points
27 comments4 min readEA link

Tips for ask­ing peo­ple for things

Ben Kuhn5 Apr 2022 20:30 UTC
127 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Mak­ing large dona­tion de­ci­sions as a per­son fo­cused on di­rect work

Ben Kuhn27 Dec 2021 18:19 UTC
37 points
16 comments2 min readEA link

EA In­fras­truc­ture Fund: May 2021 grant recommendations

Jonas V3 Jun 2021 1:01 UTC
92 points
99 comments42 min readEA link

What I learned from work­ing at GiveWell

Ben Kuhn22 Feb 2021 6:31 UTC
54 points
1 comment7 min readEA link
(www.benkuhn.net)

We’re Lin­coln Quirk & Ben Kuhn from Wave, AMA!

Ben Kuhn27 Oct 2020 17:34 UTC
77 points
45 comments3 min readEA link

Why and how to start a for-profit com­pany serv­ing emerg­ing markets

Ben Kuhn6 Nov 2019 1:00 UTC
140 points
15 comments6 min readEA link
(www.benkuhn.net)

“Why Na­tions Fail” and the long-ter­mist view of global poverty

Ben Kuhn16 Jul 2019 7:59 UTC
153 points
20 comments13 min readEA link
(www.benkuhn.net)

[Question] Has your “EA wor­ld­view” changed over time? How and why?

Ben Kuhn23 Feb 2019 14:22 UTC
28 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Where I gave and why in 2016

Ben Kuhn6 Jan 2017 5:10 UTC
6 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

[link] GiveWell’s 2015 recom­men­da­tions are out!

Ben Kuhn21 Nov 2015 2:49 UTC
2 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Solv­ing dona­tion co­or­di­na­tion problems

Ben Kuhn28 May 2015 1:04 UTC
8 points
30 comments1 min readEA link

How im­por­tant is marginal earn­ing to give?

Ben Kuhn19 May 2015 20:41 UTC
16 points
72 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­plain­ing im­pact purchases

Ben Kuhn16 Apr 2015 0:53 UTC
10 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Tech job Q&A

Ben Kuhn19 Mar 2015 17:52 UTC
6 points
31 comments1 min readEA link

Re­sults from a sur­vey of peo­ple’s views on dona­tion matching

Ben Kuhn1 Mar 2015 7:30 UTC
5 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

[cross-post] Does dona­tion match­ing work?

Ben Kuhn11 Jan 2015 3:49 UTC
9 points
13 comments1 min readEA link