Austin’s Scratchpad

Abandon hope, all ye who enter

In the spirit of embracing complete openness, I’ll aim to make all my personal notes public too.

Do markets have moral worth?
Is “markets in everything” a useful frame?
Against worrying about “opportunity costs”
- Energy (or morale? curiosity?) is the biggest driver, not time
- Opportunity cost is too top down/analytical mindset
- For worrying: “focus matters”?
List: weird events I’ve run
- NYC house
- Taco Tuesday
  - & Taco Twosday
- Mexifold
- Manifest
- In common: get the venue & the people right
What if we incorporated “EA”?
- People get shares of total EA impact… somehow
- People contribute to common EA fund
  - Rn marketplace for nonprofits is pretty inefficient, could we make this marketplace better?
    - Maybe this is Manifund’s calling — to set up the meta-nonprofit evaluator
    - What would the premier store with EA nonprofits look like? BGG/Every.org for nonprofits?
      - LTFF, LSG, other donation opportunities could be using our platform to decide where to give
      - Key components:
        
        Most comprehensive public grants database