Why It’s Not Good to Go It Alone

Well, one of the reasons for doing this proof-of-concept donations report was to uncover problems in reviewing tools, and I’ve uncovered one: it’s just really hard to care about 26 different tools enough to review them carefully and evenly. Having two people to do the report would make a lot more sense: it’s less for each person to do, there’s someone to confer with, a d there’s another perspective and set of opinions. It’s just really not optimal to have only my opinions inform the whole thing – there’s too much potential that my experiences are coloring the report in some unfortunate way.

I think the coordination that would be needed would actually result in a better report, as the two people would need to talk through and agree on all the main aspects. And frankly, there would be someone else to commiserate with when things get hard (or tedious)… someone who (as opposed to my husband) would be paid for their trouble.

It’s late in the process for this particular report, but I think one of my collaborators is going to help with a thorough review of my summaries and recommendations, which is really great….