Five hard problems · three ways in
Let’s do this.
Five problems too big for any one of us, and the part that is still yours. Each one has three routes: learn what’s true in ten minutes, do the thing that helps most, and practice until it’s a habit. Every number has a source and a date. Most of the Do steps are written for readers in the United States.
Five minutes?
- Learn the call-back rule. 2 min
- Give monthly where the evidence is strongest. 5 min
- Pay for a survivor’s recovery. 5 min
- Give cash to people in extreme poverty. 5 min
- Check the source before you share. a habit
Start with a problem
Child hunger
Treat a starving child. About $100.
About 2.2 million young children a year die with undernutrition as part of the cause.1 Treatment works, and it’s cheap. Funding for it is being cut.
Trafficking
Pay for recovery. Know the number.
Rescue gets the attention; recovery is what keeps people free, and many federal grants for it lapsed in October 2025. Twenty-five minutes gives you where to give, what a bad job looks like, and the number to hand to someone who needs it.
Cybercrime
Lock it down. One hour, $0.
What reaches a household is a scam sent to everyone or a password leaked from someone else’s breach. One hour closes those doors, and one rule touches where most of the money goes.
Inequality
Equal dignity, unequal outcomes. The part you control.
You can’t change who owns what from your kitchen. You can send cash to people in extreme poverty, write to your legislator about one bill, and get a working family’s refund filed free and right.
AI and us
Make it your advisor, not your dictator.
How you use it decides whether you get sharper or duller. Habits, settings and checks, each with what it can and can’t do.
Steps where you live
Enter your ZIP code and every Do page adds the steps that depend on your state: its own programs, laws and finders. The code stays in your browser, like the ticks.
Or start with what you have time for
Learn
Ten minutes each. What’s true, which words matter, where the experts disagree, and what to read next.
Do
The whole job in three steps, priced in minutes and dollars, with exact links and menu paths.
Practice
A rhythm for the year, a drill to test yourself, and a checklist that remembers where you are.
Why five, and why like this
Each of these problems is held in place at every level at once: inside people, between them, in what they do every day, and in the systems they build. These pages stay with the part that’s yours, and say so plainly when that part is small. They started as five essays; they’re built from the evidence.
Nothing here is sold. There’s no sign-up, no tracking and no donation button; every link goes straight to the people doing the work. The facts get re-checked, and what changed is listed. How these pages are made.
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No tracking on any link.Ticks stay on this device.Facts checked 5–6 Nov 2026.What changedContested