I was talking to @profhedonium about donations and I decided I should say publicly on tumblr that this year I plan to write a post about my donation decision and publish it here.
For the first time this year I’ll have quite a bit of money to donate, and I think it’s important to think a lot about where I donate it. Hopefully writing up my decision and the reasons behind it will
- force me to think through it carefully so I have something to write up
- give other people a chance to point out mistakes in my reasoning and convince me to change my mind
I’m posting this now so that, come December, if I haven’t written a post about this everyone can shame me until I do. (Not that I think you will actually do that. But my irrational fear that you will will be a good motivator.)