I really appreciate how this piece treats Operations, not as a nice-to-have, but as a bottleneck that can quietly cap an organization’s impact. It reminded me of Goldratt’s The Goal: if you don’t explicitly identify and elevate your constraint, the whole system stalls. The rubric feels like a practical diagnostic tool which we can use, reflect and equip ops capacity, A+ orgs are the ones that treat ops capacity, specialist support, and process design as the constraint to manage!
Rushikesh Gaikwad
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A $1B grant to GiveWell is a huge opportunity, not just to save more lives now, but to strengthen the whole EA funding ecosystem. The real test is whether this catalyzes better support for absorptive capacity, rewards high performers without creating bottlenecks, and keeps space for innovation across implementation orgs. Thanks for laying out these stakes so clearly.