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James Özden
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Here is a collection of some writing / research I’ve done. 

  • Why you can justify anything using historical social movements
  • How can activists understand if their tactics are working?
  • My lifelong pledge to give away 10% of my income
  • Social tipping points are probably over-rated
  • Tensions between different ways of doing good
  • Things I’ve changed my mind on recently (Nov 2023)
  • What’s everyone got against throwing soup? Looking at some of the empirical evidence behind disruptive tactics, after Just Stop Oil’s soup throwing at famous art
  • High-risk high-reward: Applying venture capital concepts to doing good
  • Theories of change for the animal advocacy movement
  • Megaprojects for animal advocacy
  • What is effective altruist research? For Giving What We Can
  • Analysis of Effective Altruist funding within Animal Welfare from 2019-2021.

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