Over the course of this experiment I hope to do many different altruistic acts. I may not report every day, but I do plan on reporting the more interesting ones (I may actually report more of the minor details at my personal blog). At first it seemed very difficult to figure out what to do. However, the more I look around the more I see many things that could be done.  

My main act of compassion so far has been feeding people who are homeless. It has been my mainstay act of altruism. There are relatively many people who are homeless near me and I can do this pretty anonymously. That is, I can "sneak up" on them and give them a bag of food pretty quickly without getting praise or really even being identified (I often find people who are sleeping).

One unexpected outcome of this endeavor is that I have been rejected a few times. Luckily (at least for my ego), the people who have rejected my offerings have never accepted it previously. It actually makes quite a bit of sense in that I am not sure I would trust some random stranger handing me food. People who are homeless actually face a multitude of crimes and hate-victimization (about three years ago there were a string of beatings to people who are homeless). Thus, I think I would be quite reluctant taking food from a stranger.