A lot of people, myself included, have felt conflicted about the choice between doing direct work (like health interventions) and trying to ...

Greetings from the Effective Altruism Global Conference in California!  I just got a copy of Will MacAskill's new book about effective a...

Both advocates and critics of effective altruism like to contrast arts charities with public health charities. Peter Singer writes  on art a...

I was excited to see Peter Singer's new book, The Most Good You Can Do . He's letting the internet decide to donate $10,000 of the...

Sometimes people ask Jeff and me if we plan to raise our daughter in some special way as an effective altruist. The answer is “not really.” ...

This sprang out of the last post on how to talk to people about giving . If you're trying to persuade people, it's unclear how f...

Recently someone asked me about much to talk about effective giving. Some thoughts: Blogging (or other forms of writing) are nice because ...