Many people I talk with profess a strong desire to change the world for the better. This often manifests in their decision processes as something like “out of the life paths and next steps I have categorized as ‘things I might do’, which one pattern matches to helping best?”.
This has for a long time felt like a strategic error of some kind. Reading Aaron Swartz’s explanation of Theory of Change vs Theory of Action helped crystallize why.
Many people I talk with profess a strong desire to change the world for the better. This often manifests in their decision processes as something like “out of the life paths and next steps I have categorized as ‘things I might do’, which one pattern matches to helping best?”.
This has for a long time felt like a strategic error of some kind. Reading Aaron Swartz’s explanation of Theory of Change vs Theory of Action helped crystallize why.