Also I forgot to acknowledge your incredibly generous offer of money.
The good news for your bank account is that money is not a bottleneck, the kind of work that needs to be done is simply not on the table for the amount of money we could conceivably raise to try and have it done.
I used to be a really big fan of EY’s The Unit Of Caring essay (and still am), but I’ve since come to understand that it’s seemingly bullettight reasoning does in fact have some leaky holes. One of which is that the amounts of stuff people are willing to give you as gifts in kind through free professional contributions and the like simply dwarfs the available funds that might be donated for the vast majority of small causes. For example, employing the services of Said Achmiz would normally cost a staggering amount of money, but as a ‘loyal troop’ he’s willing to put in organic effort on the project that I’d be hard pressed to pay for at any amount.
Also I forgot to acknowledge your incredibly generous offer of money.
The good news for your bank account is that money is not a bottleneck, the kind of work that needs to be done is simply not on the table for the amount of money we could conceivably raise to try and have it done.
I used to be a really big fan of EY’s The Unit Of Caring essay (and still am), but I’ve since come to understand that it’s seemingly bullettight reasoning does in fact have some leaky holes. One of which is that the amounts of stuff people are willing to give you as gifts in kind through free professional contributions and the like simply dwarfs the available funds that might be donated for the vast majority of small causes. For example, employing the services of Said Achmiz would normally cost a staggering amount of money, but as a ‘loyal troop’ he’s willing to put in organic effort on the project that I’d be hard pressed to pay for at any amount.