Charities that I Respect

Introduction Like many, I’ve usually kept my charitable giving private — and I’ve respected that choice in others. But recently, a few people have asked where they might consider donating. Since I don’t see a need to keep it to myself, I’ll share my recommendations for anyone interested. I’ve organized this around a few themes. For each one I will link to the organization’s website and the Charity Navigator rating. For all of the organizations mentioned below, I respect them and I have personally donated to them at least once, but often over several years. I’m leaving out organizations that I don’t want to donate to for various reasons and local charities, but I may revisit those topics someday. I’m also not including much commentary on each one since I’m hoping you will find your own reasons to like them and contribute. ...

June 13, 2025 · 3 min · 435 words · Christopher Hicks

The Banality of Genius

Original article is at https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/the-banality-of-genius-notes-on-peter. This bit really hooked me on this article: Peter Jackson’s decision to make Get Back an eight-hour series rather than a two hour movie was a risky one. When I heard about it, I wondered if it was the result of a man who, locked down in his Antipodean editing suite, had waded too deep into his material and lost control of it, a Kurtz in the Beatle jungle. ...

October 16, 2023 · 1 min · 102 words · Christopher Hicks

Cake Board is a LEGO-friendly breadboard

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/252587878/cake-board-new-lego-friendly-solderless-breadboard evolves the breadboard in some intersting ways.

September 22, 2014 · 1 min · 8 words · Christopher Hicks

A month to yourself

I shared https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20121009151419-197425497-a-month-to-yourself/ where Jason Fried says: Here’s why I gave my company a month to work on whatever they wanted: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201209/jason-fried/why-company-a-month-off.html

October 17, 2012 · 1 min · 22 words · Christopher Hicks