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A review by treyhunner
Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help by Larissa MacFarquhar
I'm not sure what my takeaway is from this book. I assumed this would be a critique of the effective altruist movement. It mostly wasn't. But I'm not entirely sure what it was.
A lot of these stories are about people whose lives seem like a mess, but who (hopefully?) left a positive impact on the world, obsessively.
I don't want to be any of these people. But I do want to help enrich the lives of humanity (plus more?), both alive and dead as much as I can. Maybe this is simply a series of cautionary tales.
A lot of these stories are about people whose lives seem like a mess, but who (hopefully?) left a positive impact on the world, obsessively.
I don't want to be any of these people. But I do want to help enrich the lives of humanity (plus more?), both alive and dead as much as I can. Maybe this is simply a series of cautionary tales.