Secular Sermonette: More effective altruism

What to Do With a Trillion Dollars: A short-short story

More Effective Altruism

Do You Want to be More Giving or More Selfish?

My Psychology Today article today asks you questions to help you decide if you want to be more giving or more selfish? It then offers suggestions for both. 

Life Advice from the Smartest and Wisest Person I Know

Michael Scriven is smart, wise, and a polymath: He has published in the leading journal in eleven separate disciplines: from philosophy to mathematics, evaluation to parapsychology. He’s also relentlessly practical: with impressive expertise in design of word processors, knives, and sports cars.

I got to know Scriven as my Ph.D. adviser at Berkeley and we have remained friends ever since: three decades.

This afternoon, I spent three hours interviewing him on the question, “What are your thoughts on living the life well-led? I publish the highlights of that interview as my PsychologyToday.com article today. HERE is the link. 

Live by "The Meter": a tool for living the meaningful life, the life well-led

A couple of days ago, I posted a stream-of-consciousness talk on what you should know about higher education that the universities won't tell you.

A viewer of that video, Justin Wehr, posted a comment asking if I might do and post more unscripted talks, and he suggested some topics, one of which was The Meaning of Life. So, here it is: