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Ben Kuhn

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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 KuhnJan 9, 2023, 3:48 PM
40 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Some notes on com­mon challenges build­ing EA orgs

Ben KuhnDec 3, 2022, 3:00 AM
211 points
26 comments4 min readEA link

Want ad­vice on man­age­ment/​or­ga­ni­za­tion-build­ing?

Ben KuhnNov 15, 2022, 3:40 AM
141 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

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

Ben KuhnMay 14, 2022, 2:13 AM
181 points
27 comments4 min readEA link

Tips for ask­ing peo­ple for things

Ben KuhnApr 5, 2022, 8:30 PM
138 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Mak­ing large dona­tion de­ci­sions as a per­son fo­cused on di­rect work

Ben KuhnDec 27, 2021, 6:19 PM
37 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

EA In­fras­truc­ture Fund: May 2021 grant recommendations

Jonas VJun 3, 2021, 1:01 AM
92 points
99 comments42 min readEA link

What I learned from work­ing at GiveWell

Ben KuhnFeb 22, 2021, 6:31 AM
55 points
1 comment7 min readEA link
(www.benkuhn.net)

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

Ben KuhnOct 27, 2020, 5:34 PM
77 points
45 comments3 min readEA link

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

Ben KuhnNov 6, 2019, 1:00 AM
149 points
15 comments6 min readEA link
(www.benkuhn.net)

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

Ben KuhnJul 16, 2019, 7:59 AM
161 points
20 comments13 min readEA link
(www.benkuhn.net)

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

Ben KuhnFeb 23, 2019, 2:22 PM
28 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Where I gave and why in 2016

Ben KuhnJan 6, 2017, 5:10 AM
6 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

[link] GiveWell’s 2015 recom­men­da­tions are out!

Ben KuhnNov 21, 2015, 2:49 AM
2 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Solv­ing dona­tion co­or­di­na­tion problems

Ben KuhnMay 28, 2015, 1:04 AM
8 points
30 comments1 min readEA link

How im­por­tant is marginal earn­ing to give?

Ben KuhnMay 19, 2015, 8:41 PM
16 points
72 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­plain­ing im­pact purchases

Ben KuhnApr 16, 2015, 12:53 AM
10 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Tech job Q&A

Ben KuhnMar 19, 2015, 5:52 PM
6 points
31 comments1 min readEA link

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

Ben KuhnMar 1, 2015, 7:30 AM
5 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

[cross-post] Does dona­tion match­ing work?

Ben KuhnJan 11, 2015, 3:49 AM
10 points
13 comments1 min readEA link