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This is your most important decision
by far the most important decision you will make, in terms of your lifetime impact, is your choice of career. Especially among young people, it has become increasingly common to strive for positive impact as a core part of one’s professional life rather than as a sideshow.
William MacAskill • What We Owe the Future
An individual can save (way) more than one life by directing some amount of money to the most effective charities and NGOs (which can be 100s and even 1000s times more effective in having a positive impact than the median charity). There are also other avenues for having such a high impact, such as directing your career to tackle the world's bigges... See more
Will MacAskill • Doing Good: A Conversation with William MacAskill (Episode #228)
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three other personal decisions seem particularly high impact to me: political activism, spreading good ideas, and having children.
William MacAskill • What We Owe the Future
The “learn more, build options, do good” framework is generally useful for anyone deciding what to do with their career.
William MacAskill • What We Owe the Future
A Harvard psychologist once asked Amos Tversky why he became a psychologist. “It’s hard to know how people select a course in life,” he said. “The big choices we make are practically random. The small choices tell us more about who we are. Which field we go into may depend on which high school teacher we happen to meet. Who we marry may depend on w... See more
SIX at 6: The Seemingly Frivolous, Reading A Tongue, Experiencing A Spoon, Authenticating Paintings, The Systematic Choices, and Great Revelations
Mateo Balaña Paemen and added