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I wanted to write a snarky response to this and went to look for some ad hominem seasoning for my zinger on www.jefftk.com. But I got played. It's hard to hold

I wanted to write a snarky response to this and went to look for some ad hominem seasoning for my zinger on www.jefftk.com. But I got played. It's hard to hold malice against someone who donates over 50% of their income every year [0]. Good on you. I'm going to keep using my adblocker, though. 0. https://www.jefftk.com/donations https://www.jefftk.com/donations

oska 6y ago
From that page: > Julia and I believe that one of the best ways to make the world better is to donate to effective charities. I would argue that the best way to make the world better is to First do no harm. Making a large income by pushing ads at Google doesn't uphold that rule, in my opinion. And perhaps this person's sensitivity around their job is why they feel the need to publicly list their donations, rather than giving quietly. Public philanthropy has often been used as a way to try to deflect criticism from how the money was first made.
- istjohn 6y ago
  Public philanthropy by billionaires of what for them is actually a miniscule portion of their wealth is suspect. But this is not that. I can't speak for Mr. Kaufman, but I imagine he shares this information publicly not to brag, but to encourage a new norm of publically donating a significant portion of one's income to effective charity. He and his partner may have literally saved hundreds of lives with their contributions over the last few years alone[0]. What have you done for the world lately? For myself, the answer is: not enough. 0.https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/our-criteria/cost-effectiveness/cost-effectiveness-models https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/our-criteria/cost-effec...
- jefftk 6y ago
  > Making a large income by pushing ads at Google doesn't uphold that rule If I thought my work in advertising was harmful I would stop. I think it's probably slightly positive: https://www.jefftk.com/p/value-of-working-in-ads https://www.jefftk.com/p/value-of-working-in-ads > perhaps this person's sensitivity around their job is why they feel the need to publicly list their donations, rather than giving quietly I've been listing my donations publicly since before I started working in ads. I wrote https://www.jefftk.com/p/make-your-giving-public https://www.jefftk.com/p/make-your-giving-public when I was working on open source software that rewrote web pages so they would load faster.

oska 6y ago

From that page: > Julia and I believe that one of the best ways to make the world better is to donate to effective charities. I would argue that the best way to make the world better is to First do no harm. Making a large income by pushing ads at Google doesn't uphold that rule, in my opinion. And perhaps this person's sensitivity around their job is why they feel the need to publicly list their donations, rather than giving quietly. Public philanthropy has often been used as a way to try to deflect criticism from how the money was first made.

istjohn 6y ago
Public philanthropy by billionaires of what for them is actually a miniscule portion of their wealth is suspect. But this is not that. I can't speak for Mr. Kaufman, but I imagine he shares this information publicly not to brag, but to encourage a new norm of publically donating a significant portion of one's income to effective charity. He and his partner may have literally saved hundreds of lives with their contributions over the last few years alone[0]. What have you done for the world lately? For myself, the answer is: not enough. 0.https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/our-criteria/cost-effectiveness/cost-effectiveness-models https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/our-criteria/cost-effec...
jefftk 6y ago
> Making a large income by pushing ads at Google doesn't uphold that rule If I thought my work in advertising was harmful I would stop. I think it's probably slightly positive: https://www.jefftk.com/p/value-of-working-in-ads https://www.jefftk.com/p/value-of-working-in-ads > perhaps this person's sensitivity around their job is why they feel the need to publicly list their donations, rather than giving quietly I've been listing my donations publicly since before I started working in ads. I wrote https://www.jefftk.com/p/make-your-giving-public https://www.jefftk.com/p/make-your-giving-public when I was working on open source software that rewrote web pages so they would load faster.