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Reporting on psychedelics, vaping and smoking, effective altruism, philanthropy. Ex-Fortune. Runner. Washington Nationals fan. At https://t.co/XJzn1rQRAd
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Oct 6, 2021 4 tweets 4 min read
This is quite something: Groups that serve nonprofits and foundations (and promote #transparency!) won't say how much they were given by @MacKenzieScott, reports @mariadimento in @Philanthropy. They don't want other donors to know. [1/4]

philanthropy.com/article/groups… Here's more from @Philanthropy about the so-called infrastructure groups in #philanthropy -- more than 70 nonprofits that want to influence or improve or lobby for the sector, many identity-based. It's all very meta. [2/4]

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Sep 19, 2021 7 tweets 4 min read
I watched the @nytimes @FXNetworks @Hulu documentary Move Fast and Vape Things, about Juul and #vaping, so you don't have to. It's good television but not very good journalism. [1/7]

nytimes.com/article/move-f… The show nicely captures the early days of Juul and the get-rich-quick culture of Silicon Valley that, by most accounts, led the company astray.

Steven Baillie, a photographer behind the #Vaporize campaign, says: "I feel guilty. Maybe I took them down the wrong path." [2/7]