Hey, everyone. If you're like me, you may wonder how to become a better person, specifically than Kellyn.

Well, today's book is Doing Good Better by William McCaskill.

I'm Kellyn Erskine. I'm a comic, a father. And to me, doing good better sounds like the least

correct way to order those three words.

And I'm David Vance.

I've noticed that if you podcast about donating to charity, people just automatically assume you do it.

Doing good better is about how you can do the most good with your life.

It made me rethink my job as head of Camel's child marketing

division. And this is the book pile. Pizak, Pysak, says, in spite of being a podcast omnivore,

this is one I must listen to every time. Very smart, very funny. It leaves you feeling smarter than when you started and also just in a better mood, rare. Okay, maybe I don't know what omnivore means. I assume it means he listens to podcasts by vegetarians and carnivore. But I mean, I guess that would mean ours

because you and I cover that spectrum.

All right, and if you want to request a book for us to cover

or you just have some nice compliments about how slow I talk,

email us at the bookpile podcast at gmail.com.

To be clear, do not mention how slow he talks.

You never see him, but then i have to deal with it any half joke half insult that ends with just kidding i take as a full insult

finally our next two books are the alchemist and Movies and Other Things.

All right, and without further ado, here are four lessons that we took from

Doing Good Better.

Lesson one.

Treat charity a little more like beans.

All right, think of the last time you gave to charity. And let's say you gave

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