Hi, I’m Sasha.
Since 2008 I’ve written about generosity, fundraising and leadership in the social sector, and the long, slow work of pursuing mastery. Lately, I’ve been writing more about AI. By day I run 60 Decibels.
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Manifesto in Defense of Raising Money 2008The Generosity Experiment, my TED talk 2010Generosity Day since 2011
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Listening is Not the ‘Soft’ Option
Last week, Kate Labeille (Root Capital) and I published an article in Stanford Social Innovation Review titled Listening Is Not the ‘Soft’ Option. Listening is at the heart of what we do at 60 Decibels. But Kate and I aren’t arguing that listening should replace rigorous program evaluation. Rather, we believe the best implementers and funders understand that these two approaches are deeply complementary. One of the ways I like to explain this is to distinguish between proving and improving…
Recent posts
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Using AI to Make Chicken Tortilla Soup from the Taco Project
I’ve written before about how AI is a 90% expert: smarter than 90% of…
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Two jobs at once
All the data on multitasking notwithstanding, on any project that requires real thinking, today…
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Instinct: My AI Assistant
A couple of weeks ago I was sitting with a fellow board member the…
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Three Hours for Wicked Problems
Writer Neil Gaiman, author of Coraline and many other eerie, magical books, has a…
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EWIMO writing
It’s become horribly easy to spot AI writing. The false tension. The emojis and…
The 2x2s and other drawings
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I'm raising money
Where this blog started: asking for money without apologizing, and treating it as a conversation between equals.
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I'm leading a team
Hiring, managing, culture, and protecting time for the work only you can do.
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I'm figuring out AI
Using AI at work without losing your voice or your judgment. The newest thread here.
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