> If you want to save the world, save the world first.
> Stop. Fucking. Waiting.
I don't understand what you're suggesting. Is Trigg (the programmer who joined Wall Street) "waiting"? What does "not waiting" look like?
I don't understand what you're suggesting. Is Trigg (the programmer who joined Wall Street) "waiting"? What does "not waiting" look like?
Getting to small version of the change you want to see is vastly preferable than trying to be Buffet and then starting a foundation. By then, you've lost all connection to the problems you wished to solve and the mentality of even trying to make this change.
Again: Stop waiting guys! You can actually do this now and grow your little org into a great force for change.
It's just that it's sub-optimal if he can actually run an org to solve the problems. Especially the risk of not increasing donation size with increased conspicuous consumption.
You can get soft quickly if you're not thinking lean...
If you want to do ROI calculations on problems spaces - there's a group that publishes strategies for these:
Copenhagen Consensus [PDF]:
http://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/sites/default/files/Outco...