From the notebook
Notes on giving, evidence and building EveryDrop.
AI is mostly pointed at efficiency and profit. EveryDrop is an experiment in pointing it somewhere else: one founder, no funding, building a charity's entire platform with AI as the engineering team.
Most habit apps are built on streaks, guilt and fear of loss. EveryDrop is deliberately bounded: a thirty-day giving journey with a real ending. Here's the design thinking behind that choice.
Philanthropy doesn't need to wait for billionaires. Ordinary people already give at enormous scale; what's missing are the tools to make everyday generosity intentional, informed and habitual.
Robust research shows that spending money on others makes you happier than spending it on yourself. That finding dissolved a false trade-off I had carried for years, and it is the reason EveryDrop exists.
How a small charity can make defensible giving decisions using only public, verifiable evidence.
Why EveryDrop treats generosity as a calm daily habit rather than an occasional act, and what that changes.