What industry are you in? It might be highly efficient to form a group of folks interested in optimal philanthropy, who work where you work; then you could: (1) do further research and background reading, with them; and perhaps more importantly (2) get other folks curious about high-efficiency charities, and committed to thinking it through and potentially donating.
I believe some others have had success with such study groups, although I don’t remember the details.
I’m in academia; specifically I’m a post-doc working on computational linguistics. So I mostly have contact with PhD students and other academics. PhD students are poor, but that can actually be a good thing here. It means you can convince them that they ought to donate later, while they spend four years or so learning to live on little money. Then they go off and work at Google, or some such.
I do plan to start talking about my tithing, slowly, as it comes up in conversation. If everybody who decided to give rationally influenced at least one other person to do so too, the idea grows virally. But, gently, gently. Nobody’s convinced by brow-beating moralising.
I do plan to start talking about my tithing, slowly, as it comes up in conversation. If everybody who decided to give rationally influenced at least one other person to do so too, the idea grows virally. But, gently, gently. Nobody’s convinced by brow-beating moralising.
In academia, especially, forming a group that thinks through the impacts of different charities (and that potentially helps you decide where to donate) might allow you to get others engaged in a manner that feels more like recognizing their status/brains, and asking for intellectual help they might like to give, than like moralizing.
There’s a group of us in Boston doing something similar (not formal study, but dinner and discussion on how best to give). If anyone reading this is in the area and wants to come to future such dinners, write me.
What industry are you in? It might be highly efficient to form a group of folks interested in optimal philanthropy, who work where you work; then you could: (1) do further research and background reading, with them; and perhaps more importantly (2) get other folks curious about high-efficiency charities, and committed to thinking it through and potentially donating.
I believe some others have had success with such study groups, although I don’t remember the details.
I’m in academia; specifically I’m a post-doc working on computational linguistics. So I mostly have contact with PhD students and other academics. PhD students are poor, but that can actually be a good thing here. It means you can convince them that they ought to donate later, while they spend four years or so learning to live on little money. Then they go off and work at Google, or some such.
I do plan to start talking about my tithing, slowly, as it comes up in conversation. If everybody who decided to give rationally influenced at least one other person to do so too, the idea grows virally. But, gently, gently. Nobody’s convinced by brow-beating moralising.
In academia, especially, forming a group that thinks through the impacts of different charities (and that potentially helps you decide where to donate) might allow you to get others engaged in a manner that feels more like recognizing their status/brains, and asking for intellectual help they might like to give, than like moralizing.
That sounds like a good idea. I’ll keep it in mind, although I’m not exactly in academia.
There’s a group of us in Boston doing something similar (not formal study, but dinner and discussion on how best to give). If anyone reading this is in the area and wants to come to future such dinners, write me.