Effective Altruism Is Suboptimal (zainrizvi.io)

And then the bombshell: Five days from now their current stay ended and they’d have to leave. But they still didn’t have a place to go.

It was a punch to the gut. Hearing it directly from John made it viscerally real in a way that no powerpoint on poverty could hope to achieve.

I wanted to help. And not just give money.