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Doing Good Better
Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference | William MacAskill
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Most of us want to make a difference. We donate our time and money to charities and causes we deem worthy, choose careers we consider meaningful, and patronize businesses and buy products we believe make the world a better place. Unfortunately, we often base these decisions on assumptions and emotions rather than facts. As a result, even our best intentions often lead to ineffective, or even harmful, outcomes. How can we do better? The author, a former researcher at Oxford, has developed a philosophy he calls "effective altruism". This practical, data-driven approach is based on five key questions that help guide our altruistic decisions, thereby allowing each of us to make a tremendous difference regardless of our resources.
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For every book I read this year, I am donating $1 to EveryLibrary for advocacy and funding for libraries #librariestransform. Planning to double up with $2 per book for @DeweysReadathon at the end of the month

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"Before the advent of alarm clocks, people called knocker uppers were employed to knock on the windows of sleeping people in the morning, so they could get to work on time."

I'm glad that's how that sentence ended. I really thought "knocker uppers" was going in a different direction.

#doinggoodbetter #nonfiction

LauraBeth 😂😂😂 7y
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