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* GOAL 3 is a social enterprise that created IMPALA, a patient monitoring and digital platform system for low-resource settings. There is also a GOAL 3 foundation that raises funds to ensure underserved communities will be reached.
* A recently completed report from Rethink Priorities calculated IMPALA to have a cost per DALY averted of $7–17 in paediatr...
This month effective altruism has gotten lots of attention, including a cover story in The Economist. It feels pretty surreal to be on the receiving end of it. But I feel grateful these ideas have caught on, and even more grateful for the drive, earnestness, and compassion of so many people who took strange but well-argued ideas seriously and then actually acted on them....
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Subtitle: On vegan advocacy, effective altruism, and FIFA
I turn 40 today. Here are some hot takes.
On factory farming
1. Our biggest challenge is salience. If factory farming led the evening news, it wouldn’t last lo...
This is really frustrating - I wrote an article and the EA Forum server crashed and the whole text was lost ... this server seems to be crashing quite a bit recently ... I will try again later.
For what it's worth, the gist of the post was that I looked at the new job-board from the High-Impact Professionals site, and was amazed to see that there were over 1000 full-time positions, but only 12 part-time.
And IMHO, in many smaller orgs especially, it makes a lot more sense to look at hiring experienced people part-time, primarily because many small orgs do not need the unique skills these people bring for 40 hours per week.
So I believe that too many orgs in the impact space are defaulting to full-time roles because maybe that's what the young people and new grads they mostly deal with are looking for. But for a senior professional, maybe they can provide 80/20 the value they can bring to a new, smaller org in one afternoon per week - and this option would enable them to avoid having to take major career risks and pivots at a time in their lives where they are dealing with kids and mortgages and not a lot of flexibility ...