from Patrick McKenzie | by Patrick McKenzie

Huh. I think first thought is “Sounds like a joke” and second thought, articulated later in thread, is ~obviously correct. You’re providing executive function where people lack it and implicit leverage is absolutely silly.

Someone once asked me to record a personalized video for their friend just exhorting them to do salary negotiation, Cameo style, and I should probably carve out a business process to do that in 30 minutes a week on a similar argument.

One of the key insights about charity that the EAs have is that you have to be really, really effective to justify not just buying bed nets, but I think local knowledge does offer some attractive bargains if one doesn’t need to have 7 FTEs to do a feasibility study of…