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How should we think about doing good, when we're a part of a world which is too complex for us to fully understand?
Pragmatically, I think the answer should look less like figure out the best thing to do and then do that, and more like a combination of working out how to act well in the roles we have assumed, and strategically thinking about which areas to move into.
I'm afraid this is sort of half-baked stuff! But it's been half-baked for several years, and in the last few months I've found myself a few times linking people to my old slides, so it seemed like it could be useful to just make public, even though it's still imperfect.
I'd love to hear pushback / refinements / requests for more concrete examples, etc.
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Some related thoughts: https://nunosempere.com/blog/2024/12/04/grain-of-truth-memo/
Also related: VC-backed companies pivoting being fairly common (but much less common with nonprofits, maybe since the relationship with funders is capacity constrained and predicated on a particular theory of impact)