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Investing – Essays – Yield Giving

I love words, and this year this one has been on my mind a lot. It’s another one that seems to have undergone a kind of semantic shriveling.

On the list of its big, beautiful, original definitions? To devote resources for a useful purpose. To endow with rights. To clothe.

Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is an inspiration. What she’s doing with her billions, and how she’s doing it, is a fascinating model that others who desire to give their billions away should consider following.