I'm a social worker in a jail. Today one of the inmates showed an untrained but intricate drawing to my colleague. "This is amaz...

Last time , I argued that those of us in rich countries can help more by earning money to give than by traveling to poor countries. But wha...

I was talking to a friend about ways to help the world, and he said something that surprised me: “I sometimes feel guilty about doing little...

As a social worker, I hear a lot of stories. Yesterday I sat with a man who told me about the death of his young daughter fifteen years ago...

One of my favorite concepts from the Less Wrong blog is the " ugh field ," coined by Jennifer Rodriguez-Müller. The idea: if you ...

The High Impact Network (THINK) is a new group that organizes meetups for people interested in effective altruism. They've got meetups...

I don't use religious texts as a basis for making decisions, but I recognize that a lot of people do. I've heard some of them cite...