Make money doing the work you believe in
Yesterday I tried to share a thematic directory of my Substack posts, and kinda failed. The headings didn’t paste in as expected - fine if you speak fluent HTML, otherwise potentially confusing.
So here’s Take Two:
This is my full directory of posts, all centred on getting clear answers to “value for money” questions, so people can make better decisions with limited resources in the real world.
Each link below opens a themed mini-library so you can browse posts on the topics that interest you.
The Value for Investment evaluation approach: background, principles, and how-to guidance on the VfI system. juliankingnz.substack.c…
Rubrics and evaluative reasoning: making criteria, standards, and value judgements explicit, ethical and useful. juliankingnz.substack.c…
Program theory and value propositions: connecting theories of change to “who benefits, in what ways, and is it worth it?” juliankingnz.substack.c…
Economic methods of evaluation: cost-benefit analysis (CBA), social return on investment (SROI), and other economic tools, viewed within a broader evaluative frame. juliankingnz.substack.c…
Cubist Evaluation: an avant-garde manifesto for doing rigorous evaluation in complex settings by mixing evaluative reasoning styles, methods and perspectives, and challenging narrow ideas about what counts as rigour. juliankingnz.substack.c…
Causality and contribution: reflections on approaches to understanding whether and how interventions cause or contribute to outcomes. juliankingnz.substack.c…
AI tools in evaluation: using AI in ways that support good quality, ethical, human-led evaluation practices. juliankingnz.substack.c…
Other topics: more personal, playful, or experimental pieces that still circle back to value, evidence, and decisions. juliankingnz.substack.c…