Charity, philanthropy, giving, these have been around for maybe as long as some people

have had more than others.

A movement called effective altruism claims it has improved on the original mandate,

give, to give well, i.e. be smart about giving.

Make sure it counts.

Recently, this movement has gone from relatively niche to mainstream.

Consider Dylan Matthews.

He's a senior correspondent at Vox who started writing about effective altruism, EA, a decade

ago.

He became an adherent and he did something that's big in EA ethos.

He donated a kidney to a stranger.

You meet a lot of people to talk a big game about doing the right thing, but once it started

meeting people who talked a big game, but also we'd go under the knife for it.

That really made an impression on me.

The rise of effective altruism.

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