How to Give Well to Effective Charities

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verybadwizards.org has asked us to give our listeners a thank you this past season podcast listeners like the ones here at very bad wizards gave over 500,000 dollars to give wells recommended charities. Givewell spends more than 10,000 hours each year with their spreadsheet nerds searching for outstanding charities but it only matters at the end of the day if we can get donors like you to act on that information so give well greatly appreciates your support of effective evidence-backed charities. Find out more about how good your donation can do go to givewell.org there you'll find all of Givewell's research for free as well as a short list of the most effective charities they found.

Our whole lives we’ve been frauds. We’re not exaggerating. Pretty much all we’ve ever done is try to create a certain impression of us in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. This episode is a perfect example, Tamler pretending to be a cinephile (check out his four favorite pieces of 2019 “pop culture” in the first segment), David trying to connect with the people (Baby Yoda, Keanu Reeves etc.) – and of course what could be more fraudulent than a deep dive into a David Foster Wallace story, rhapsodizing over the endless sentences, the logical paradoxes, the seven-layer bean-dip of metacommentary (Jesus Christ I’m surprised there aren’t like eight footnotes in this episode description), and meanwhile the Partially Examined Life dudes refresh their overcast feeds and wonder through the tiny keyhole of themselves how David and Tamler have sunk so low that they’d ramble on about “Good Old Neon” like a couple of first year Comp-Lit grad students trying to impress that girl who works at the Cajun bakery.