Sentinel Bio's @jtmonrad calls out the two extremes ruining philanthropy: vanity on one side, "performative rigor" on the other "One would be not caring about impact at all and doing it for vanity, doing it for ego, get your name on the building. That's definitely been a big f*ck-up." "You can also fail in the other direction, where you have this almost performative fetish with cost-effectiveness for its own sake and rigor for its own sake." "One of the people who mentored me as I got into the philanthropic world would call out often when I would write these very detailed, meticulous grant investigations, and she would say, this is performative rigor. You already know what you want to do, but you feel emotionally I have to justify it with a very fancy model." "When we're talking about these issues that are so urgent, that are such grand scale, what matters is that we solve the problems, not that we make a lot of good deals along the way. My job is to solve a biosecurity problem, not to make individually cost-effective or rigorous grants."