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50. Making a Difference During Wartime

Shit You Don't Learn in School

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The Way We Think About Charities as Dead Wrong

I think sometimes humans just focus on the wrong things. I can understand some of those arguments, but ultimately, every charity or non profit is a business with the goal of deploying money to the causes that they deem important. Because of that business model, we actually end up having waig less money go to charities because we don't allow them to do experimentation and hire top talent. On an absolute basis, the charities are actually doing a lot more good for the world. If people want to learn more about this, there's a wonderful ted talk by dan polota called way we think about charity as dead wrong.

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