This is a crosspost from my new Substack Power and Priorities where I’ll be posting about power grabs, AI governance strategy, and prioritization, as well as some more general thoughts on doing useful things. 

I think your link is broken btw. Should be: https://powerandpriorities.substack.com/ 

If you were to write a second book about GCRs, what would you focus on next?

These chapter titles are amazing!

You cover a lot of different topics within the GCR space in your book. Has the reception to any chapter surprised you?

The percentage of EAs earning to give is too low

I'm voting yes because I think more people interested in EA should seriously consider earning to give as a career path, which is much higher absorbency and (IMO) important for the health of our movement.

So I'd be interested in a world where folks learning about EA seriously consider earning to give more, and if they do so I expect the population of people EtG would increase. (I'm also with 80K here that I'd only advocate for more EtG if your job doesn't do direct harm).

I haven't thought hard about whether people currently working in direct impact jobs should switch over to earning to give.

I'd be interested in hearing more career stories of people who have been earning to give for a while!

I'm sorry you have been feeling worn, and am glad you are taking time away!

But on reflection, I think I confused working hard with impact, and many of these projects were not very high value. Even if they were high value, I was probably working too much to be able to think clearly and creatively about them. 

I really relate to this. When I was earning to give as a consultant, I also felt this pull towards "impactful" side projects, and took up a myriad of projects on top of a busy job without really critically thinking about their impact case.

As one of her colleagues, I feel so grateful to work with Kathleen! 💜 She's such a star -- Kathleen, so glad you pivoted to come work with us!

Astonishingly good <3 <3 <3

Everything is so polished and well communicated: chef kiss! Nice work team!

Trachoma: how a common cause of blindness can be prevented worldwide - I knew very little about trachoma before working on this piece. I was very surprised by how much progress had been made against it, and also the scale of the data collection effort (eye tests of more than 2.6 million people!) - it raised my ambitions on how much was possible against neglected diseases with targeted efforts.

<3 just read the post and I found it a fun read! Man, successful public health initiatives are so great :') Definitely one of the more inspiring things about humanity.

True, it's cool that we have large scale data on this -- nice graphs! Thanks for sharing :)

To me, the main one is figuring out a good article structure early on: what the author actually needs to explain first, how they'll introduce and connect the different points, and so on, in a way that's readable and logical, while also conveying their message effectively. I think people often struggle with that, and I would want to use their time more efficiently so they know what extra research to do (or what to cut down if it turns out it wasn't necessary).

That's really interesting, thanks! I don't have a great idea of what editors for journals do, and it's interesting to me that you're involved so early in the writing journey vs receiving a mostly complete piece. Thanks for the answer!

I liked these questions from @Toby Tremlett🔹, I'd be curious for your answer!

9. As head of the WHO for a day, what is the first concrete action you would take?

6. Editing Works in Progress, what one lesson has most improved the ideas you publish?