Effective Philanthropy at Scale

Maybe I take myself too seriously as a self-styled philanthropist ... but really I am not very serious. You see, it only takes about 10 seconds to make a huge impact in someone's life : you just usually won't know when that opportunity is available. So in order to maximise the impact that you have, per unit of energy, to apply a rule of laziness, you should always speak incisively, such as to have maximum effect when given small amounts of time. Advice should therefore be crushing or liberating. Sure, sometimes we are given the luxury of time to manipulate a needy person ... but one should not assume that is the case unless time is explicitly given.