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It& #39;s the 30th of September in some parts of the world (looking at you India!). So it& #39;s my birthday then. 
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ" title="Woman dancing" aria-label="Emoji: Woman dancing">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ" title="Woman dancing" aria-label="Emoji: Woman dancing">I& #39;m doing well, thanks! But others aren& #39;t. Which is why I& #39;m asking you to donate to @LifeYouCanSave. A thread and reflection of why I do it. 1/9
So a bit about me: I& #39;m the sort who feels bad at life& #39;s random lottery. I think about it a lot. Like knowing that some child dies because of a mosquito bite that& #39;s a nuisance to me. Or that a woman, like me, who& #39;s given birth has terrible injuries that can be fixed. 2/9
And here& #39;s the thing - in many of these cases, it& #39;s just MONEY! That& #39;s the weird thing. It& #39;s the same money I buy a Starbucks with that could save their entire life. That makes me slightly crazy. 3/9
At the same time I& #39;m a bit of a coward. Or lovin& #39; the good life, you may say. I& #39;ve admire @Malala, @DenisMukwege and #JeanDreze but my heart fails me to go out and toil and get shot or killed. So what can I do with a good but cowardly heart and some money? 4/9
It turns out there& #39;s a lot. You can donate to effective organizations doing the work. You need them to do the work & make life& #39;s random lottery slightly fairer and they need you for the money. 5/9
I realized this a few years ago after reading @PeterSinger& #39;s article "How much Should A Billionaire Give and How much should you?" And LOTS of Google searching. But orgs like @LifeYouCanSave make this process easier for people. I wish I had known them years ago. 6/9
How? First there& #39;s the free book "The Life You Can Save." That& #39;s right. You can download it. Read, distribute, etc. Next, there& #39;s a calculator that tells you how much you should give. & Then a list of 22 charities to make donating even easier. 7/9
But we need to get the book and idea into EVERYONE& #39;S hands! So they can read for themselves and donate. As any marketer (or missionary) would te you, unfortunately that requires money. 8/9
So that& #39;s why I& #39;m abandoning all shame as one should once one reaches a Respectable Age and urging you- if you kinda like my tweets, go to http://www.thelifeyoucansave.org"> http://www.thelifeyoucansave.org and donate today. Thanks!!
