How to Keep Your Pledge (5)
Strategy 5: Advertise to yourself Everyday we are surrounded by advertisements trying to influence how we spend our money, but only a tiny fraction of that…
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Strategy 5: Advertise to yourself Everyday we are surrounded by advertisements trying to influence how we spend our money, but only a tiny fraction of that…
CEA ran a Weekend Away in a Welsh castle last weekend for 60 people from the four charities they have launched – Giving What We Can,…
Strategy 4: Taxes, taxes, taxes If you don't trust your government to spend money wisely, and you live in a country where charitable donations are tax-deductible,…
Strategy 3: Make it automatic It’s easy to set up recurring donations to the effective charity of your choice (thanks technology!). Calculate the monthly or quarterly…
Strategy 2: Save If you’re a natural saver, you’ll enjoy looking for ways to cut costs from your lifestyle. Bring your lunch to work, skip those…
Strategy 1: Match your luxury spending This was the most effective strategy for me when I first started giving. For some reason, $20 given away felt…
I have become nocturnal. I couldn't get to sleep on the night of Day 6, I slept through all of the sessions on Day 7, then…
Another day packed full of useful insights and thoroughly enjoyable conversations. However, I'm afraid I will have to keep this post very short as I'm running…
Did you know that “effective altruism” was nearly called “rational altruism”? I'm glad it didn't catch on because it sounds a bit too pretentious, but the…
This week is roughly divided into "effective altruism days" and "rationality days"; Tuesday was technically an effective altruism day, although I learnt a lot about rationality!…
Just a short post for Day 2, as we did applied rationality training which I will write about as a whole after we have completed all…
I am living in a house in the San Francisco Bay Area with 75 other effective altruists. If our hosts had simply shut us in and…