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

Some notes on common challenges building EA orgs

Ben Kuhn3 Dec 2022 3:00 UTC

211 points

26 comments4 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

“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)

Want advice on management/organization-building?

Ben Kuhn15 Nov 2022 3:40 UTC

141 points

4 comments1 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)

Tips for asking people for things

Ben Kuhn5 Apr 2022 20:30 UTC

127 points

4 comments6 min readEA link

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

Ben Kuhn27 Oct 2020 17:34 UTC

77 points

45 comments3 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)

There is now an EA Managers Slack

Ben Kuhn9 Jan 2023 15:48 UTC

40 points

4 comments1 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

A critique of effective altruism

Ben Kuhn3 Dec 2013 1:39 UTC

29 points

5 comments12 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

[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

Lessons from running Harvard Effective Altruism

Ben Kuhn19 Sep 2014 4:05 UTC

27 points

2 comments15 min readEA link

Career choice: Evaluate opportunities, not just fields

Ben Kuhn28 Sep 2014 21:37 UTC

22 points

8 comments2 min readEA link

How important is marginal earning to give?

Ben Kuhn19 May 2015 20:41 UTC

16 points

72 comments1 min readEA link

Spitballing EA career ideas

Ben Kuhn30 Nov 2014 0:02 UTC

13 points

35 comments8 min readEA link

Explaining impact purchases

Ben Kuhn16 Apr 2015 0:53 UTC

10 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

[cross-post] Does donation matching work?

Ben Kuhn11 Jan 2015 3:49 UTC

9 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

Solving donation coordination problems

Ben Kuhn28 May 2015 1:04 UTC

8 points

30 comments1 min readEA link

Brainstorming thread: ideas for large EA funders

Ben Kuhn28 Sep 2014 19:15 UTC

8 points

66 comments1 min readEA link