In 2021, I donated €4,000. — This year, I gave away 10% of my net income. Every year, I donate to three cause areas: 60% to saving lives and improving health outcomes of the world’s poorest. 20% to finding long-term solutions to global poverty and inequality. 20% to spreading happiness. In a year that felt, in…

30 years ago, my Dad taught me what freedom meant. — I remember little of that Sunday. But I can imagine it to the minute detail — the story, repeated by Mum every year, gradually changing like a Lithuanian fairy tale, is my favourite. Dad left, probably on one of those buses that transported thousands of people from every corner of…

In 2020, I donated €12,725. — Just like last year, in 2020 I gave away around 10% of my net income. My strategy is to distribute this amount across three cause areas: 60% to saving lives and improving health outcomes of the world’s poorest. 20% to finding long-term solutions to global poverty and inequality. 20% to…

The world is wonderful. The world is terrible. Let’s choose again. — The world is richer, healthier, and more educated than it has ever been. In the last 150 years, we broke out of the Malthusian trap; eradicated smallpox; invented sliced bread, the automobile, the Internet, and the smartphone; and put a man on the Moon. …

The covert battle between the ethical and the conventional. — I’ve been thinking about fish lately. I am not a fan of fish as food. I love cheap kaiten sushi and my Mum’s pike and carrots in foil. But that’s it, all other fish is yuck. My Dad’s not a fan of fish as food either. But he loves fishing…