An excellent organisation is significantly more likely to succeed than a weaker one, so organisational strength belongs in the decision about where to give.

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• Give where there is strong evidence that donations do a lot of good, rather than where weak evidence suggests they might do far more. HKHolden Karnofsky18 Aug 2011
• Netflix’s cultural rules were never ends in themselves: agency, accountability and pushing decisions deep into the organisation are the mechanism by which you get excellence. ESElizabeth Stone19 Jul 2026
• Organizations are a better hope than individuals for improving judgment, because they think more slowly and have procedures that can be controlled, while individual judgment is really hard to fix. DKDaniel Kahneman12 Oct 2019
• The deeper anyone digs into a charity's cost-effectiveness estimate, the more unwarranted optimism they find, so the right prior on giving is a sceptical one. HKHolden Karnofsky18 Aug 2011
• Because the first design is almost never the best, organisational flexibility matters for good design. MCMelvin Conwayc. 1968

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