So I ve donated 10% of my 2025 salary (sorry, a bit belatedly) to some top malaria prevention charities, and some other charities too. I blog here for my own accountability and in the small hope it might encourage others to do so. Whenever I waiver about whether this is a good idea, I like [ ]
This blog is now basically just a public record of my donation pledge… I aim to write more, about other stuff, at some point. See previous years posts for the explanation of why giving 10% of your salary is a moral imperative — and also made very straightforward by the good people at Giving What We [ ]
Sorry if I’ve mentioned this before, but if you’re reading this, you’re probably in the top 5% of high earners worldwide. Perhaps top 2-3%. If you’re not sure, you can look it up via this handy calculator. In the absence of a global wealth taxation scheme to fund global public health – it’s just around [ ]
My public record of annual donations - 2021 edition.
Publishing our bid for funding to work on networking the democracy space, and a plea for more open grant application processes
More conversations on the democracy sector — what it is, how it collaborates, funding, planning ahead and needs/requests.
Sketches for a thing that supports networking in the democracy space. From MVP to basic, better and best models. Plus pricing, hosting and governance.
Since 2014, I ve donated one-tenth of my salary/income to end poverty. I do so alongside thousands of other folks, having pledged to via Giving What We Can. The idea is that we in richer countries are very wealthy in the grand scheme of things and a small portion of our income can be transformative when [ ]
Over the summer, I researched and wrote Networking for Democracy, funded by JRRT. It looked at the needs, capacity, tools and approaches for the democracy sector to better share information, to coordinate and collaborate. This post is about what happened next. Thanks to everyone who commented or left feedback, and to the group who came [ ]
Update: Here s the latest on this project. The original post follows. I ve spent the last couple of months interviewing folks in the UK s democracy sector — in order to learn about how better networking might help boost our efforts to improve democracy. (The work was previewed in this post.) I ve now finished writing up the [ ]