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Different Levels of Vetting Based on Grant Size

Jun 21, 2022
3 min

Different Levels of Vetting Based on Grant Size

Vetting grants is a complex procedure. Vetting is required to determine which are the best grants, and what projects are worth...

Joey Savoie

Jun 7, 2022
5 min

Deference Culture in EA

As has been noted by other writers, the EA (Effective Altruism) movement has a pretty strong deference culture. In many ways this makes...

Does it make sense for EA’s to be more risk-seeking in earning to give?

Joey Savoie

May 20, 2022
3 min

Does it make sense for EA’s to be more risk-seeking in earning to give?

Historically it has been argued that EAs who are looking to make large donations may have more reasons to be risk-neutral than people who...

Working With Your Co-Founder. How to Excel at Decision-Making, Task Management, and Communication

Patrick Stadler

Mar 1, 2020
8 min

Working With Your Co-Founder. How to Excel at Decision-Making, Task Management, and Communication

Now, work can start. You picked a co-founder with shared values and goals, a complementary skill set and compatible psychology (see How...

How to Strengthen Your Co-Founder Relationship

Patrick Stadler

Mar 1, 2020
7 min

How to Strengthen Your Co-Founder Relationship

“Your co-founder relationship is like a marriage”. This common statement from experienced startup operators might sound like a stretch,...

Five Challenges a Charity Entrepreneur Faces -- and How to Manage Them

Patrick Stadler

Jan 16, 2020
6 min

Five Challenges a Charity Entrepreneur Faces -- and How to Manage Them

“Why take this risk?” Mentioning at a family gathering that you would like to become a charity entrepreneur might trigger looks of...

Six Ways Your Charity Startup Might Fail -- and How to Prevent That

Patrick Stadler

Jan 1, 2020
9 min

Six Ways Your Charity Startup Might Fail -- and How to Prevent That

Your charity startup just hit the ground running. You are passionate about your cause, you just gave a big talk at a conference, and...

A guide to increasing the impact of your research by involving decision-makers

Karolina Sarek

Nov 20, 2019
6 min

A guide to increasing the impact of your research by involving decision-makers

Why is some research conducted with very high quality, yet it does not affect decisions on where to direct our time and money? What makes...

How to come to better conclusions by playing steelman solitaire

CE Team

Nov 12, 2019
6 min

How to come to better conclusions by playing steelman solitaire

I have a tool for thinking that I call “steelman solitaire”. I have found that it comes to much better conclusions than doing...

Organizational Slack. How to run a stable organization

CE Team

Jan 10, 2019
4 min

Organizational Slack. How to run a stable organization

He quit! It was a tricky decision that Bill had been considering for months. He was an impact-focused EA, and although he thought his job...

Joey Savoie

Nov 16, 2018
4 min

The Importance of Time Capping

Time capping can be defined as fixing the number of hours for a certain task, research project or decision, and keeping our research...

Setting our salary based on the world’s average GDP per capita

CE Team

Aug 25, 2018
2 min

Setting our salary based on the world’s average GDP per capita

A lot of people in the EA movement have a large say over their salary, whether it be earning to give where you can donate down to a...

How Logistics Will Influence Which Intervention You Pick

CE Team

Apr 16, 2018
7 min

How Logistics Will Influence Which Intervention You Pick

“You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.” -...

Why You Should Care About Indirect Effects

CE Team

Apr 13, 2018
8 min

Why You Should Care About Indirect Effects

“Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.” - Margaret...

CE Team

Apr 11, 2018
5 min

Why You Should Care About Scalability

“The difference between a charity that saves two million lives and a million lives is the same as the difference between one that never...

CE Team

Apr 9, 2018
4 min

The importance of being flexible

How often should you re-evaluate whether your charity is worth continuing? Although it is crucial to do your best to disconfirm your...

Counterfactual impact: what would happen if you didn’t act?

CE Team

Apr 16, 2017
5 min

Counterfactual impact: what would happen if you didn’t act?

“In order to be irreplaceable, you must always be different.” - Coco Chanel WHAT IS COUNTERFACTUAL IMPACT? Counterfactual impact is what...

CE Team

Apr 7, 2017
11 min

The Importance of Evidence

“Insofar as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not...

Which metrics to use when picking an intervention

CE Team

Apr 2, 2017
15 min

Which metrics to use when picking an intervention

What gets measured gets improved. - Robin Sharma When selecting which projects to implement, you should also try to maximize your...

Using a Spreadsheet to Make Good Decisions: Five Examples

CE Team

Nov 25, 2016
8 min

Using a Spreadsheet to Make Good Decisions: Five Examples

This post was previously published at EA forum by Peter Hurford We all make decisions every day. Some of these decisions are pretty...