Joe blogs.

… So I’ve donated 10% of my 2025 salary (sorry, a bit belatedly) to some top malaria prevention charities, and some other charities too.

This blog is now basically just a public record of my donation pledge… I aim to write more, about other stuff, at some point.

Sorry if I’ve mentioned this before, but if you’re reading this, you’re probably in the top 5% of high earners worldwide.

The photo of turmeric will be explained, promise.

Previously, on this blog: Research into the democracy ‘sector’ suggests that some efforts could be made to improve networking in the space (and that this is an excellent way to support the pursuit of a better democracy); I wrote up some ways to do that… b…

Last year, I published the results of a range of interviews across the democracy sector.

Previously, on worrying-about-democracy: Our democracy needs some work; Perhaps the cheapest and quickest first step is to better connect everyone who’s already working on democracy, share info, coordinate and collaborate; That seems to be popular — there…

Since 2014, I’ve donated one-tenth of my salary/income to end poverty.

Over the summer, I researched and wrote Networking for Democracy, funded by JRRT.

Update: Here’s the latest on this project.