Henry Stanley đ¸
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Former CTO and co-founder of earn-to-give fintech Mast.
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This is wonderful â thank you so much for writing it.
Mutual dedication to one anotherâs ends seems like a thing commonly present in religious and ethnic communities. But it seems quite uncommon to the demographic of secular idealists, like me. Such idealists tend to form and join single-focus communities like effective altruism, which serve only a subset of our eudaemonic needs.
Agree about secular, single-purpose communities â but I'm not sure EA is quite the same.
I've found my relationships with other EAs tend to blossom to be about more than just EA; those principles provide a good set of shared values from which to build other things, like a sense of community, shared houses, group meals, playing music together and just supporting each other generally. Then again, I don't consider EA to be the core of my identity, so YMMV.
A fantastically inspiring story and a super interesting take - sounds like Wasoko was a lot of hard graft. Well done for sticking with it for 11 years. I also see youâve pledged 70% of the proceeds with Founders Pledge; also extremely cool.
(Makes my B2B SaaS founding to give efforts seem much less Herculean in comparison!)
Great post!
we already had multiple strong studies showing that the availability of equivalent substitutes does not lead to major changes in meat consumption.
This feels like your weakest argument. So far there arenât âequivalent substitutesâ to meat - only plant based imitations - so itâs not clear what these studies are telling us. The RP study you link to explicitly says itâs an analysis of plant-based meats and not cultured meat.
Can you say more on why the first $40M is the only money moving the needle? I think very little funding goes on diet change (at least in the EA animal welfare world it feels like itâs barely a focus these days) and much more on corporate campaigning, lobbying, legal action, innovations in farmed animal welfare technology etc.
Ferrous sulphate is also common but a bit nauseating and poorly absorbed in any case. Ferrous bisglycinate is also found branded as âgentle ironâ.
For those very deficient in iron, an iron infusion will give you ~two yearsâ worth of iron in one go - and skips all the issues with oral bioavailability of iron. You will need to test your iron levels first to avoid iron overload.
I write a bit about iron supplementation in my guide to treating restless leg syndrome (RLS) for which iron deficiency is a common cause: https://henryaj.substack.com/p/how-to-treat-restless-legs-syndrome