I was interested to see this end-of-year charity contest : you tell how you would allocate money between GiveWell's top charities, and t...

Charity recommendations My favorite charity evaluator, GiveWell, has announced its recommended charities for the year. Last year's p...

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 ...