Ben Kuhn

I'm the CTO of Wave. We build financial infrastructure for unbanked people in sub-Saharan Africa.

Personal site (incl various non-EA-related essays): https://www.benkuhn.net/

Email: ben dot s dot kuhn at the most common email address suffix

Posts

There is now an EA Managers Slack
by Ben Kuhn @ 2023-01-09 | +40 | 0 comments

Some notes on common challenges building EA orgs
by Ben Kuhn @ 2022-12-03 | +211 | 0 comments

Want advice on management/organization-building?
by Ben Kuhn @ 2022-11-15 | +141 | 0 comments

The biggest risk of free-spending EA is not optics or motivated cognition, but...
by Ben Kuhn @ 2022-05-14 | +180 | 0 comments

Tips for asking people for things
by Ben Kuhn @ 2022-04-05 | +135 | 0 comments

Making large donation decisions as a person focused on direct work
by Ben Kuhn @ 2021-12-27 | +37 | 0 comments

What I learned from working at GiveWell
by Ben Kuhn @ 2021-02-22 | +55 | 0 comments

We're Lincoln Quirk & Ben Kuhn from Wave, AMA!
by Ben Kuhn @ 2020-10-27 | +77 | 0 comments

Why and how to start a for-profit company serving emerging markets
by Ben Kuhn @ 2019-11-06 | +148 | 0 comments

"Why Nations Fail" and the long-termist view of global poverty
by Ben Kuhn @ 2019-07-16 | +161 | 0 comments

Has your "EA worldview" changed over time? How and why?
by Ben Kuhn @ 2019-02-23 | +28 | 0 comments

Where I gave and why in 2016
by Ben Kuhn @ 2017-01-06 | +6 | 0 comments

[link] GiveWell's 2015 recommendations are out!
by Ben Kuhn @ 2015-11-21 | +2 | 0 comments

Solving donation coordination problems
by Ben Kuhn @ 2015-05-28 | +8 | 0 comments

How important is marginal earning to give?
by Ben Kuhn @ 2015-05-19 | +16 | 0 comments

Explaining impact purchases
by Ben Kuhn @ 2015-04-16 | +10 | 0 comments

Tech job Q&A
by Ben Kuhn @ 2015-03-19 | +6 | 0 comments

Results from a survey of people's views on donation matching
by Ben Kuhn @ 2015-03-01 | +5 | 0 comments

[cross-post] Does donation matching work?
by Ben Kuhn @ 2015-01-11 | +9 | 0 comments

Where are you giving and why?
by Ben Kuhn @ 2014-12-12 | +4 | 0 comments

Spitballing EA career ideas
by Ben Kuhn @ 2014-11-30 | +13 | 0 comments

Career choice: Evaluate opportunities, not just fields
by Ben Kuhn @ 2014-09-28 | +22 | 0 comments

Brainstorming thread: ideas for large EA funders
by Ben Kuhn @ 2014-09-28 | +8 | 0 comments

Lessons from running Harvard Effective Altruism
by Ben Kuhn @ 2014-09-19 | +27 | 0 comments

A critique of effective altruism
by Ben Kuhn @ 2013-12-03 | +29 | 0 comments

Replaceability in altruism
by Ben Kuhn @ 2013-08-29 | 0 | 0 comments

Effective altruists and outsiders
by Ben Kuhn @ 2013-08-05 | +3 | 0 comments

Spending on yourself vs. charity
by Ben Kuhn @ 2013-07-05 | +1 | 0 comments

Common responses to earning to give
by Ben Kuhn @ 2013-06-10 | +1 | 0 comments