We are trying to find funding for our work at OurWorldInData.org for the coming years and we’d like to emphasize why our work is useful for you.
For those of you who know our work, what would you emphasize in our efforts to find funding?
What would be your arguments?
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1. Roser’s Law: the world has gotten profoundly better to a greater degree and in more ways than you would imagine, even when taking into account Roser’s Law.
2. People caused this to happen, and here’s how.
3. People can cause this to happen even more, and here’s some of how.
I sometimes get a sense reading OWiD of suddenly glimpsing the real, the eternal, a plane obscured behind the buzzing and trivial concerns of everyday, the engine which drives everything of value—how had I missed it? Then I blink and the sense is gone. Very like meditation.
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Oh man, these two tweets are very nice to read, thank you for the generous words Andy. That's very much what we are aspiring to, but we still have some decades of work ahead of us.
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