A year before #GivingTuesday was launched in 2012 as an antidote to the consumerism of the post-Thanksgiving season, I met Peter Singer for noodles at a humble Chinese restaurant in Manhattan.
I pursued a conversation with Peter because his moral philosophy inspired my ongoing imperfect pursuit to become a vegetarian, and his views on giving have deepened my commitment to build an organization that delivers high-quality, low-cost healthcare to the world’s poorest people.
And Pete turns 70 and we enter the fourth year of #GivingTuesday, the lessons contained in his book, and the Effective Altruism movement, act as a moral rubric for how I would strive to live my life, and a compass for our team every single day as to how to best serve our patients.
