I wrote an essay for @nytimes.com Ideas about how people decide where to give away money and how the tech industry's obsession with optimization filtered into so many parts of our culture. Here's a gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/business/charity-holiday-giving-optimized.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fk4.nep8.HbD9jvAftSqg&smid=url-share
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This discussion strikes me a similar to the obsession with standardized testing in education. How you measure has consequences.
Every other do-gooder friend who goes into big tech, high finance, big law, or management consulting (instead of original intents) dives in effective altruism as though to put a salve over their “guilt” or misaligned values & work.
It’s sad. This attacks the results but not the root causes.