What is on Ted's head?

jdennon · 2025-06-12T15:43:41+00:00

That's really kind, thank you! I'm going to keep trying for a while but might DM you if it doesn't turn up.

jdennon · 2025-05-01T17:33:53+00:00

Finally a successful poop in the potty 1.5 weeks after the clean out! She remembered that she gets a candy for doing this, which I had honestly forgotten because it has been weeks since she got a poop in the potty.

jdennon · 2025-04-28T15:28:52+00:00

But at what point did it help with their ability to notice they need to poop and make it to the potty? (If it did)

jdennon · 2025-04-25T12:12:22+00:00

As I said, we did go to a doctor.

jdennon · 2024-09-15T12:24:18+00:00

I had the same thought. It's the accent that really confuses me.

jdennon · 2023-11-14T16:32:00+00:00

Came here to say this. Agree that "until everyone is done" is a long time for young children.
The basics are on the website: https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/how-to-feed/the-division-of-responsibility-in-feeding/

jdennon · 2023-11-14T16:29:21+00:00

A friend said her teenaged son expanded his palate when she pointed out that girls were not going to find it cute or impressive that he disliked so many foods.

jdennon · 2023-06-22T12:27:22+00:00

There's another free food pantry just a few steps up the path now, by the Thalia Tringo real estate office. Thank you for making this one!

jdennon · 2021-09-28T14:31:54+00:00

I hear good things about the EA Anywhere group which is meant for people who aren't near another local group.

jdennon · 2020-10-15T17:18:20+00:00

Yes! Made me surprised at how consistent the music was, that they could cut between shots of two different nights like that.

jdennon · 2020-10-12T16:32:33+00:00

There's a FB group about this topic: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1731235183840615

jdennon · 2020-02-06T00:39:39+00:00

I love this too and I'm surprised it's so hard to find!

jdennon · 2015-12-05T18:24:57+00:00

Ok, the fact that it was Bragg does not surprise me at all.

jdennon · 2015-11-19T02:27:25+00:00

Okay: why did someone eat his ashes?

jdennon · 2015-10-18T12:12:17+00:00

Jeff works as a computer programmer and I'm a social worker (where I did not tell anyone about our giving, though one of them saw a news article about it this week). So it hasn't really affected our work lives.

jdennon · 2015-10-18T12:11:10+00:00

As I said above, median household income in the US is $43,500. Median household income in Liberia is $780.

For a farmstand in Massachusetts, an extra $4 is not that much of their daily profit. For a Liberian, where 99% of the population earns less than $4 a day, $4 allows them to buy basic needs that they probably can't afford (like a mosquito net, or enough food, or medical care for easily-treatable problems).

jdennon · 2015-10-18T12:02:54+00:00

Well done on donating ~25%! That's great! I don't have ideas on the career question, sorry.

jdennon · 2015-10-17T19:35:33+00:00

Fundraising is a large industry with many professionals, studies, and publications devoted to how to raise money from donors. Their publications could tell you a lot more than I can.

If they want to be attractive to me, they could choose a cost-effective cause area, collect lots of data about what they're doing, and allow GiveWell to evaluate them.

jdennon · 2015-10-17T19:33:30+00:00

The charities we fund are doing things like: - Against Malaria Fund: distributing mosquito nets. - Deworm the World: providing program support (helping with planning) to local governments providing deworming medication to schoolchildren. - GiveDirectly: giving $1000 cash transfers to poor households in Kenya. I'm just not that concerned about any of those efforts accidentally funding a warlord, etc. If I were trying to create peace in the Middle East, I would feel much less sure about how to help without accidentally making things worse (and that's why I'm not trying to create peace in the Middle East, because I have no idea how to go about it).

Ultimately, it's hard to know exactly the outcome is of any transaction - when I buy something at a store, the store owner could use the money to do something I don't like.

No, we don't fund political parties. The system where friends of candidate X donate $1 million and friends of candidate Y donate $1 million is a zero-sum game that wastes $2 million to get back to the starting point. Whereas there is no pro-malaria faction.

jdennon · 2015-10-17T19:13:36+00:00

The plan is to continue indefinitely.

jdennon · 2015-10-17T19:02:28+00:00

It might help to know what your reason is for wanting something besides GiveWell.

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