🎗 Contribution & Impact

Details, resources, questions, and challenges

This can be an awkward conversation to have with yourself: Should you be contributing more than you are? And should you be thinking more carefully about where your money goes? Maybe, maybe not. But now is the time to at least consider how you spend your money (see GiveWell) and time (see 80,000 hours)

🔗 Related life areas

❓ Questions to consider

  • How are you giving value to the world?
  • How much did you give away in the past year?
  • Who did it go to? Did it have the most possible impact?
  • Are you taking responsibility for, and reducing, your environmental impact on the world?
  • What do you want this to be like?
  • What would this look like if it was perfect?

👊 Challenges for next year

  • Give 10% of your income to the charity of your choice - or 1%? 1$?
  • Set aside time to find out which charity has the greatest impact

📚 Resources

  • Website 80,000 hours. "You have 80,000 hours in your career. How can you best use them to help solve the world’s most pressing problems?"
  • Website GiveWell searches for the charities that save or improve lives the most per dollar.
  • Website Against Malaria Foundation. One of the most effective charities out there, run by a lean team of incredibly nice people.
  • Book Doing Good Better (Will Macaskill)
  • Book Moral Uncertainty (Several)