When asked “what I do” I say that I’m trying to reduce suffering and increase happiness, both in the world and in myself. When I am pushed to give a more normal answer, I say that I am a serial charity entrepreneur. I start organizations and design them so that they are self-sustaining such that I can step back and they can continue generating impact without me. Like passive income but for impact.
So far I have co-founded Charity Entrepreneurship, Charity Science Health, and Charity Science:
In this arena I have given talks at Cambridge, Yale, London School of Economics, Effective Altruism Global San Francisco & London, and EAGx Sydney.
Right now I am doing research on what to start next. My research is a combination of book and on-the-ground learning. The latter is composed of seeing things as close up as possible, living in rural African villages, visiting factory farms around the globe, speaking to people facing various issues and trying to get a qualitative sense of the space. The former is making sure the fundamentals are covered. Am I going in the right direction? How would I know? How do I hone my abilities to come to true conclusions? In practice this is a lot of meta-ethics, statistics, research design, decision theory, and psychology. I summarize and write up what I find on this blog so that I can internalize the ideas better and others may benefit from it as well.
On the personal happiness side, I meditate, talk to cool people about cool things, go on walking-reads in new cities, dance, travel, write prose and poetry, draw, and try to figure out ways that I can fit more reading into my life.
If you find what I’m doing useful and want to help it continue longer, I don’t need much to live on and a little can go a long way. I pay myself what everybody would get paid if all of the world’s wealth was equally distributed, so around $1,000 USD a month. I’m not a registered charity because that restricts my activities too much, so I cannot offer tax deductibility. I can however offer the knowledge that you might have had a large impact on the world (and certainly on me!). If you’re interested, please reach out to me.
So far I have co-founded Charity Entrepreneurship, Charity Science Health, and Charity Science:
- Charity Entrepreneurship is a combination of Y Combinator and GiveWell. It is a charity incubator, providing training and resources to people starting high impact organizations. It also does systematic prioritization research into what are the best opportunities to start.
- Charity Science Health is a GiveWell-incubated nonprofit which has helped hundreds of thousands of people in India get vaccinated using behavioral nudges over cell phones.
- Charity Science, featured in Doing Good Better, helped raise awareness and funds for evidence-based and cost-effective charities. It provided hundreds of thousands of deworming tablets to children in Africa, educated tens of thousands people about factory farming, and co-ran the first RCT on vegetarianism outreach effectiveness.
In this arena I have given talks at Cambridge, Yale, London School of Economics, Effective Altruism Global San Francisco & London, and EAGx Sydney.
Right now I am doing research on what to start next. My research is a combination of book and on-the-ground learning. The latter is composed of seeing things as close up as possible, living in rural African villages, visiting factory farms around the globe, speaking to people facing various issues and trying to get a qualitative sense of the space. The former is making sure the fundamentals are covered. Am I going in the right direction? How would I know? How do I hone my abilities to come to true conclusions? In practice this is a lot of meta-ethics, statistics, research design, decision theory, and psychology. I summarize and write up what I find on this blog so that I can internalize the ideas better and others may benefit from it as well.
On the personal happiness side, I meditate, talk to cool people about cool things, go on walking-reads in new cities, dance, travel, write prose and poetry, draw, and try to figure out ways that I can fit more reading into my life.
If you find what I’m doing useful and want to help it continue longer, I don’t need much to live on and a little can go a long way. I pay myself what everybody would get paid if all of the world’s wealth was equally distributed, so around $1,000 USD a month. I’m not a registered charity because that restricts my activities too much, so I cannot offer tax deductibility. I can however offer the knowledge that you might have had a large impact on the world (and certainly on me!). If you’re interested, please reach out to me.
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