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Craig Newmark shifts away from journalism as a primary focus of his philanthropy, saying "a lot of my efforts haven't been as effective as I'd like them to be" (Ben Gose/Chronicle of Philanthropy)
https://www.philanthropy.com/news/craigsli

Craigslist Founder Signs Giving Pledge and Narrows Focus
Craig Newmark's philanthropic strategy is shaped as much by what didn’t work as by what did — leading to an approach that favors scale, networks, and trusted intermediaries over scattershot giving.

How tech billionaires are turning on the Giving Pledge, promoted by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett; Peter Thiel says he privately told ~12 signers to undo it (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
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The Billionaire Backlash Against a Philanthropic Dream
The Giving Pledge, once trendy among the world’s richest, has come upon hard times.

Veteran tech investor Roger McNamee, recalled asking "Silicon Valley" creator Mike Judge what he was really going for.
Judge answered, “I think Silicon Valley is immersed in a titanic battle between the hippie value system of the Steve Jobs generation and the Ayn Randian libertarian values of the Peter Thiel generation.”
McNamee’s own read on things was less diplomatic:
“Some of us actually, as naïve as it sounds, came here to make the world a better place.
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The billionaires made a promise -- now some want out | TechCrunch
In 2010, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates launched a disarmingly simple campaign they called the Giving Pledge: a public commitment, open to the world's

Why do I have the feeling that the word "nihilism" was difficult to avoid in this quote:
“I think Silicon Valley is immersed in a titanic battle between the hippie value system of the Steve Jobs generation and the Ayn Randian libertarian values of the Peter Thiel generation.”
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The billionaires made a promise -- now some want out | TechCrunch
In 2010, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates launched a disarmingly simple campaign they called the Giving Pledge: a public commitment, open to the world's

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116240102906761194
The Giving Pledge was always,
as Warren Buffett said from the start,
just a “moral pledge”:
no enforcement,
no consequences,
no one to answer to but yourself.
That it once carried weigh…