We should be chefs when it comes to career-path-carving (a.k.a. reason from first principles). This is because of the following: (1) it takes up a significant chunk of our lives, (2) it plays a big role in determining the quality of our lives, (3) it serves as our primary mode of impact-making, and (4) it also serves as our primary identity.

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on one hand, i think i’d strongly prefer a world where more people kept an explicit goal of improving the world and used that as one of the primary criteria for making decisions like what job to work at after college.