We at Intentional Insights, the nonprofit devoted to promoting effective altruism and rational thinking to a broad audience, are finalizing our Theory of Change (a ToC is meant to convey our goals, assumptions, methods, and metrics).
Here's the Executive Summary:
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The goal of Intentional Insights is to create a world where all rely on research-based strategies to make wise decisions and lead to mutual flourishing.
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To achieve this goal, we believe that people need to be motivated to learn and have broadly accessible information about such research-based strategies, and also integrate these strategies into their daily lives through regular practice.
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We assume that:
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some natural and intuitive human thinking, feeling, and behavior patterns are flawed in ways that undermine wise decisions.
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problematic decision making undermines mutual flourishing in a number of life areas.
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these flawed thinking, feeling, and behavior patterns can be improved through effective interventions.
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we can motivate and teach people to improve their thinking, feeling, and behavior patterns by presenting our content in ways that combine education and entertainment.
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Our intervention is helping people improve their patterns of thinking, feeling, and behavior to enable them to make wise decisions and bring about mutual flourishing.
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Our outputs, what we do, come in the form of online content such as blog entries, videos, etc., on our channels and in external publications, as well as collaborations with other organizations.
- Our metrics of impact are in the form of anecdotal evidence, feedback forms from workshops, and studies we run on our content.
Here is the full version. I'd appreciate any feedback on the full version from fellow EAs, on things like content, structure, style, grammar, etc. Thanks in advance!
Lila, would you mind if I asked a mod to get rid of your post above? Feel free to make a similar point on a GWWC blog post. But as you seem to agree, this seems like it could be pretty off-putting for new people to the forum, given that it's directed at someone quite new to the community and who clearly means very well.
As an aside - it seems like a shame that any kind of metaphorical punching would be happening. We should be holding each other to account and continuously challenging each other to be more effective, but surely we shouldn't be ridiculing or fighting one another?