I can't imagine trying to equitably distribute funds the way you've tasked yourself with doing, but I received an email today from The Conversation (https://theconversation.com/), a nice little news site that tries to disseminate real facts, and the thought occurred to me, "What if we paid people to read from authoritative sources?"

By we, of course, I mean you, since I'm not equipped with the resources to do support such an endeavor.

The title of the email I received was, "What researchers are doing in the race to understand omicron"

And I realized that I take basic facts for granted. So do most of the publications I gravitate towards.

My email-based newsletters tend to come from places like Nature, and Science (magazines), and literary hubs.

So when I see anti-vax stuff, for example, I easily laugh it off, because I understand the facts. And I understand the facts because I read from sources that don't try to foment falsehoods.

No resource is perfect, but the point of my pondering is that if we could somehow incentivize people to read well-sourced material, we'd have less mayhem in our discourse. People would be better able to sort fact from fiction if their basic reading skills improved through reading.

I have no idea what this would look like. Would it be a website that can evaluate a full read somehow, like Medium tries to do? Followed by a short quiz that upon completion would earn the reader a few dollars?

Or would it simply be the promotion of book clubs? That sure seems simpler.

Maybe one of the many great non-profits that you have donated to already is attacking this issue? I'm sure there are some that tackle K-12 reading, and maybe we all need to just hope that the long game pays off.

I consider the dissemination of nonsense one of the critical issues of our day. It literally shortens lives. Getting adults to read books seems like a possible cure to our current insanity.

Thanks for all you do.