Julian King
@juliankingnz.bsky.social
Public policy consultant | Evaluation and Value for Investment at https://juliankingnz.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:29 AM
AI is super, super useful and I won’t be told otherwise.
October 19, 2025 at 5:49 AM
AI is super, super useful and I won’t be told otherwise.
October 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Will AI make evaluators redundant? Or could it enable better, quicker, cheaper evaluation, boosting demand and making evaluators busier than ever?
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October 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Will AI make evaluators redundant? Or could it enable better, quicker, cheaper evaluation, boosting demand and making evaluators busier than ever?
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The pipe dream of objectivity is alluring but doomed - the real choice is between making values explicit or hiding them under a rug.
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September 4, 2025 at 3:16 AM
The pipe dream of objectivity is alluring but doomed - the real choice is between making values explicit or hiding them under a rug.
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Goldilocks and the Three Criteria - not too specific, not too vague: just right.
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September 2, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Goldilocks and the Three Criteria - not too specific, not too vague: just right.
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Ten Commandments for social cost-benefit analysis (#CBA) and social return on investment (#SROI).
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July 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Ten Commandments for social cost-benefit analysis (#CBA) and social return on investment (#SROI).
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Cost-benefit analysis, born out of an attempt to establish ‘objective’ standards by which policies could be deemed economically desirable or not, remains as subjective as any other evaluation method at our disposal. Still useful tho. My take:
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March 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Cost-benefit analysis, born out of an attempt to establish ‘objective’ standards by which policies could be deemed economically desirable or not, remains as subjective as any other evaluation method at our disposal. Still useful tho. My take:
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A long black at Big White - or as they call it here…
February 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
A long black at Big White - or as they call it here…
This roller coaster is lame
February 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This roller coaster is lame
Feels like pretty much every govt is Joey RN
February 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Feels like pretty much every govt is Joey RN
In 1915, Robert Frost
Wrote of opportunity cost
110 years later, I
Write on Substack and Bluesky
About the art of making choices
Given limited resources
All shall be revealed tomorrow
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Wrote of opportunity cost
110 years later, I
Write on Substack and Bluesky
About the art of making choices
Given limited resources
All shall be revealed tomorrow
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February 4, 2025 at 4:54 AM
In 1915, Robert Frost
Wrote of opportunity cost
110 years later, I
Write on Substack and Bluesky
About the art of making choices
Given limited resources
All shall be revealed tomorrow
To get your copy, subscribe or follow!
Wrote of opportunity cost
110 years later, I
Write on Substack and Bluesky
About the art of making choices
Given limited resources
All shall be revealed tomorrow
To get your copy, subscribe or follow!
Actual footage of me every time I check the news
February 3, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Actual footage of me every time I check the news
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February 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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February 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Coming soon on Substack
2 years, 109 articles, 1,230 subscribers, 130,000 reads!
I’ve unlocked my most-read, least-read, and three of my favourite articles from last year, topics ranging from social investment to evaluation, value for money, small business ownership and bike paths…
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January 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
2 years, 109 articles, 1,230 subscribers, 130,000 reads!
I’ve unlocked my most-read, least-read, and three of my favourite articles from last year, topics ranging from social investment to evaluation, value for money, small business ownership and bike paths…
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I’ve unlocked my most-read, least-read, and three of my favourite articles from last year, topics ranging from social investment to evaluation, value for money, small business ownership and bike paths…
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Value for Investment, out in the world having impact from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Join us in disrupting value for money assessment… open.substack.com/pub/julianki...
January 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Value for Investment, out in the world having impact from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Join us in disrupting value for money assessment… open.substack.com/pub/julianki...
Made my very own Khaby Lame meme!
January 21, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Made my very own Khaby Lame meme!
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January 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Avoiding “computer says” social value assessments … open.substack.com/pub/julianki...
January 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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January 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Welcome to all new paid subscribers and THANK YOU for your response to my 50% discount offer! Enjoy your access to my full library of articles. Over the next few weeks I’ll be sharing links to specific articles for your perusal.
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