1 April :) 

I'd be doing less good with my life if I hadn't heard of effective altruism

Agreed: my career, donations (including pledge) & network would unlikely have similar impact. 

Beautifully presented and a helpful typology.

Well done team NOVAH for your impressive work! 💪🏻

Thank you for writing this article Patrick.

As someone with a similar-ish background of discovering EA in mid-career, many of the things you mentioned resonate with my experience. I might write a post about my own experience.

Interesting! Minor comment: there's a missing y in the header "Why Bean Soaking ma be tractable".

Since I'm not familiar with the water situation in Uganda, wanted to check if you have considered what would be the impact of using more water to soak the beans? Would families have to spend more time/money to obtain more clean water?

And a potential information campaign could take place in the markets where people buy their beans.

The bit about the vaccine sitting on the shelf for 20 years makes me think: what other potential treatments are available but not researched/deployed due to lack of commercial incentive? I wonder if there's a systematic research to identify the most promising interventions in this category.

I think it was too unstable but it paved the way for military uses of stable explosives.

Here's my stab at it: Long before the internet, this folk wisdom encapsulates the notion that: A. It's not enough to have an intention without acting on it and/or B. It's often hard to predict the long-term implications of an action. Famous examples: the inventor of the plastic bag was trying to solve the problem of waste from paper bags; Alfred Nobel's dynamite was created as a safe way to blast rocks.

Nice story, thanks for sharing! It's important to have all kinds of views to stop this forum from becoming an echo chamber.