How I Learned to Love Shrimp 2025 Highlights: All the best bits from How I Learned To Love Shrimp
Jan 27, 2026
David Coman-Hidy, advocate and funder urging more political advocacy. David Cole, legal scholar and author offering lessons from past social movements. Penny Tehlilah, organizer focused on pressure campaigns and grassroots action. They discuss pressure campaigns that win concrete reforms. They cover incremental legal change and the rising role of political strategy in animal advocacy.
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Prepare For Low-Probability Wins
- Social change is hard and most tactics will fail, so expect low probabilities of success for new approaches.
- Funders and advocates should be comfortable with high-uncertainty bets rather than assuming easy, cost-effective interventions exist.
Actively Fight Imposter Syndrome
- Push yourself outside your comfort zone to weaken self-limiting beliefs and build confidence.
- Use tools like meditation and constructive mentorship to quiet doubt and reinforce successes.
Value Naive Confidence
- High-agency founders often appear naive or arrogant but their boldness drives experimentation and progress.
- A pluralistic movement that tolerates failure will likely produce the breakthrough projects we need.
