Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Tag: Money

Paying More for Media

A new principle I’m trying to follow: we should be paying more for independent media. How I got there, and a list of the media I’m paying for.
June 11th, 2024 • media money subscriptions

Paying people to work on open source is good actually

If you have a problem with maintainers getting paid then you have a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate.
February 16th, 2024 • free software money open source rant

Philanthropy Update

Lessons learned and updates from a couple of years of executing on my philanthropic plan: finding and tracking organizations, continuing to wrestle with anonymity, and a list of donations we’ve made.
January 10th, 2024 • charity money philanthropy

Giving It All Away: My Philanthropic Plan

A major personal accomplishment in 2022 – something I’m proud of – was creating a philanthropic framework. My wife and I intend to use this framework to guide our charitable giving for the rest of our lives, with the explicit goal of giving away almost all of our wealth in our lifetimes. Here’s some backstory, and all the details of our plan and the framework that guides our giving.
May 15th, 2023 • charity money philanthropy