Joshua Greene

There's a skillful kind of way of keeping your mouth shut.

And then there are times when it can be

really dangerous.

And so the challenge is to give people the skills to know when it's constructive to speak up and speak your mind and how to do it in a way that is more likely to

solve whatever problem you're voicing your opinion about, rather than just start a new fight to add on top of whatever the existing problem is.

This is much more at the level of interpersonal relations.

And so I defer to Rick on all such things.

But yeah, what are your thoughts here?

Yeah, please.

Right.

So it begins with the recognition that Rwanda,

We have an enormous power to do good.

And this is ordinary people with the kind of disposable income that many listeners of this podcast have.

I don't mean to assume that everybody's in that situation.

And that's one.

And in particular, that some charities are far more effective than others

at producing a positive impact.

And that the size of the impact, the bang for your buck that you get out of a certain way of spending money to improve people's lives doesn't necessarily track with our feelings about what is most meaningful to us.

So my connection with GiveDirectly began with the work that led to Giving Multiplier.

And as I alluded to earlier,