A thing which has been surprisingly useful many times in the last month: There are a lot of people who are time-constrained right now and who operate on e.g. text quickly. Some information they need is audio or video. You would think "Ahh just get it transcribed; brilliant."
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However, many of these people are in organizations which do not have a convenient way to quickly get something transcribed. It requires a roundtrip through vendor qualification, a purchase order, possibly public notification requirements, etc etc.
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Thus you can get a *surprising* amount of leverage if you have independent grantmaking authority i.e. a credit card. "Here's a transcription of X prepared by a commercial transcription agency I am unaffiliated with." Same for translations/etc.
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Replying to @patio11
Surprising relative to what expectation?
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So you might have an idea in your head for what the conversion ratio is between $100 and hours of human labor aimed at a problem, or $100 and lives saved, or similar. But what if the $100 unblocked, I don't know, a city government's department which has 500 people in it.
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That's a hypothetical example; no reason to necessarily constrain yourself to thinking that small.
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