Sneak peek at the project I’m launching soon… Think tinder, but for changing the world.

How do you get people in a community to engage with each other? It's not enough to give people a place to talk. You need to *prompt* engagement. Hive shares 15 lessons from building their farmed animal welfare community 👉 www.joinhive.org/updates/our-...

15 Learnings from Community Building in Farmed Animal Welfare — Hive

What worked and what didn’t.

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Lifestyle changes are hard, but donations are easy. This graphic from FarmKind suggests more people should consider donations as an avenue for change. What do you think? Is their chart accurate?

Genuine question: does Kantian ethics mean that you have to actually read the terms and conditions before clicking agree?

Two animal welfare non-profits that I think are cool but you might not have heard of:

 FarmKind.giving: These guys built a cool donation platform that calculates (a) how many animals are raised for your diet and (b) how many animals you can help by giving to various animal welfare charities.

The lighter the meat color, the greater the suffering. Lewis Bollard explains why on twitter (x.com/Lewis_Bollar...). Mainly it is because darker meat tends to come from larger animals.

How much good do entrepreneurs do? I talk about the different kinds of entrepreneurship, both the good and the bad, and how entrepreneurship can be a route towards a high impact career. open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...

The Case for Charity Entrepreneurship

bernard arnault vs. peter singer: who’s the real hero?

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Raw piece I wrote open.substack.com/pub/helendec...

Unquiet thoughts and worthwhile lives

As I am struggling with a serious setback in my illness, I inevitably get intrusive thoughts (as John Dowland calls them, “unquiet thoughts”). One of these intrusive thoughts is the following: If I di...

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Utilitarianism is too demanding. Traditional deontology is not demanding enough. I defend progressive deontology: the worse the world, the more demanding morality is. open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...

Progressive Deontology

Morality is about freedom, not promoting value.

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