My Failures in Light of the Three Pillars of Activism

Idea generation: I am good at generating pools of questions or answers. I have a broad superficial knowledge on many issues and go a bit deeper in some domains. I am a generalist, and I am OK, even good, at many things: I can write, lecture, fundraise, manage, go undercover, investigate a new issue, hire the right people , and more. Not an exception on any of those, but between OK and good. Yet, in hindsight I understand I wasn't broad minded enough in my first ~13 years of activism. I didn't read books on social change, I hardly knew anything about AI, I was only familiar with effective altruisms philosophy in a shallow way.

Prioritization mistakes, mostly in predictions:

• Too optimistic prediction (falling in love with ones ideas), not enough feedback, and not working with prioritization methods (like Weighted Factor Model). Introspection, specifically meditation, helped my prioritization.
• I have very basic statistical understanding. I know correlation is not causation, I understand a bit about Bayesian reasoning, but practically not much more than that.
• I Didn't do enough checks before prioritizing a project. The Camera On Animal was hardly used by other activists, and the whole broader Spytech vision I had didn't work for our budget and the needs, plus willingness to put effort into new tools, of the investigative community. I also inclined too much for what looked shiny, fancy and exciting, setting a precedent, over simple and practical. Our best Spytech project this far came from the most common request investigators had and very mundane; just a regular camera that combines different features that were not there in the same product.
• When the people you depend on, like journalists, don't want the main course, the essence of the story, "confetti" - creative angel, very high quality footage, interesting framing, can only help so much, because they just don't want the core of it, they don't want to tell the story of farmed animals. The first 360 undercover camera or really craze HD footage from inside the duck cones after slaughter, or camera on animal or personal story of me in Australia, the success or failures of there depended much more on the general willingness to tell the story in the first place. Getting creative within a narrative is enchantment, not a game changer.