Comments on: My favorite cause http://blog.givewell.org/2007/07/30/my-favorite-cause/ Exploring how to get real change for your dollar. Thu, 17 May 2012 06:24:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Ann http://blog.givewell.org/2007/07/30/my-favorite-cause/#comment-11664 Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:40:47 +0000 http://blog.givewell.org/2007/07/30/my-favorite-cause/#comment-11664 Holden: Thanks for the facts! Perhaps #8 is why I find your blog so on-target on many topics that touch the work I do (which is helping nonprofits measure, manage and reward employee performance). If complete candor and transparency are indeed unlikeable, then more of us should aspire to be so. Keep doing what you do - it is making a difference out here in ways that you probably haven't even considered! Holden:

Thanks for the facts!

Perhaps #8 is why I find your blog so on-target on many topics that touch the work I do (which is helping nonprofits measure, manage and reward employee performance). If complete candor and transparency are indeed unlikeable, then more of us should aspire to be so.

Keep doing what you do - it is making a difference out here in ways that you probably haven’t even considered!

]]> by: Holden http://blog.givewell.org/2007/07/30/my-favorite-cause/#comment-11510 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:13:14 +0000 http://blog.givewell.org/2007/07/30/my-favorite-cause/#comment-11510 Hi Ann, Thanks for tagging me. I'm going to have to pass on "full participation" - this is a blog devoted to a specific set of topics and content types, and staying focused on them has advantages for us and our readers. But, I'm happy to share 8 random facts about myself: 1. I was named after Holden Caulfield from <i>Catcher in the Rye.</i> 2. I have a cat who has <a href="http://blog.givewell.org/?p=62" rel="nofollow">appeared on this blog</a>. 3. I have never played professional football. 4. I have an abnormally high energy level. I was diagnosed with ADD as a child, but my parents correctly ignored the diagnosis. 5. I am a proud member of the Barry Bonds Fan Club. I think trying to make athletes be "moral" is a tremendous waste of time; we should let them take whatever drugs they want, not discuss this in the media, enjoy the games, and save our moral righteousness for things that matter. 6. I was 5' tall entering my sophomore year in high school, and was convinced I would never grow. Now I'm a solid 6', and I swear I have never gotten over it. It's like a good dream that doesn't end. 7. I gave a <a href="http://video.harvard.edu:8080/ramgen/pluto/ClassDay2003.rm" rel="nofollow">graduation speech</a> at Harvard without a serious word in it. (See 1:20) 8. I am the least likable person in the nonprofit sector. Hi Ann,

Thanks for tagging me. I’m going to have to pass on “full participation” - this is a blog devoted to a specific set of topics and content types, and staying focused on them has advantages for us and our readers. But, I’m happy to share 8 random facts about myself:

1. I was named after Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye.

2. I have a cat who has appeared on this blog.

3. I have never played professional football.

4. I have an abnormally high energy level. I was diagnosed with ADD as a child, but my parents correctly ignored the diagnosis.

5. I am a proud member of the Barry Bonds Fan Club. I think trying to make athletes be “moral” is a tremendous waste of time; we should let them take whatever drugs they want, not discuss this in the media, enjoy the games, and save our moral righteousness for things that matter.

6. I was 5′ tall entering my sophomore year in high school, and was convinced I would never grow. Now I’m a solid 6′, and I swear I have never gotten over it. It’s like a good dream that doesn’t end.

7. I gave a graduation speech at Harvard without a serious word in it. (See 1:20)

8. I am the least likable person in the nonprofit sector.

]]> by: Ann http://blog.givewell.org/2007/07/30/my-favorite-cause/#comment-11480 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:00:22 +0000 http://blog.givewell.org/2007/07/30/my-favorite-cause/#comment-11480 Holden: As someone who blogs on employee motivation, performance and rewards - and does a lot of work in the nonprofit world - I am a big fan of your blog. There is a game of "8 random facts" going around the blogosphere and, having been tagged myself, I named you as a tag-ee in the hopes that you will be willing to reveal a few facts about yourself for your (and my) readers! http://compforce.typepad.com/compensation_force/2007/07/my-8-random-fac.html Thanks for considering! Ann Holden:

As someone who blogs on employee motivation, performance and rewards - and does a lot of work in the nonprofit world - I am a big fan of your blog. There is a game of “8 random facts” going around the blogosphere and, having been tagged myself, I named you as a tag-ee in the hopes that you will be willing to reveal a few facts about yourself for your (and my) readers!

http://compforce.typepad.com/compensation_force/2007/07/my-8-random-fac.html

Thanks for considering!
Ann

]]> by: Phil http://blog.givewell.org/2007/07/30/my-favorite-cause/#comment-11437 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:42:37 +0000 http://blog.givewell.org/2007/07/30/my-favorite-cause/#comment-11437 Excellent post. Blogged it at gifthub. Excellent post. Blogged it at gifthub.

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