How to Make Languages That Work

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If you want to make a lot of friends it can also be the probability of it working. You could think like, okay, if I'm upset, there's, and I mean, all the probabilities might be low. It might be that just like, you know, a friend can only do so much. And so maximum total probability of anything working is 50% for something. But you may be able to come in and say, okay, there's 60% chance the readers will work. There is 30% chance optimism will work and there's like zero percent chance problem solving will work or something like that. Usually a combined Doritos and optimism with comfort and some kind of fusion

What's the best way to help someone who's going through a difficult situation? What are the four states of distress? What are "comfort languages"? How can we introduce more nuance into our everyday thinking habits? When gathering information and forming opinions, how do you know who to trust? What's the difference between intelligence and wisdom?

Kat Woods is the co-founder of Charity Entrepreneurship, a startup incubator for effective altruist charities. It provides training, seed funding, and the other things necessary to kickstart an effective nonprofit. Previously, Kat co-founded Charity Science Outreach, a meta-organization that raised nine counterfactual dollars for high impact charities for every dollar spent. Subsequently she co-founded Charity Science Health, a direct poverty charity that received multiple grants from GiveWell and has served hundreds of thousands of families in India. You can find more about Kat at her website or on Twitter at @kat__woods.

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