80,000 Hours
by Benjamin J Todd · first published 2016
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I think making the world a better place is probably the best thing one can be doing with their lives. Thankfully there are great resources that can help; my top recommendation is 80,000 Hours - named after the roughly 80,000 hours that one will spend in their lives working. Given how much time that is, it's worth doing something good with it. https://80000hours.org/ Following your passion…
on “Ask HN: How do I find my “purpose”?” ↗80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good by Benjamin Todd definitely had the biggest impact on my life (and therefore hopefully on many others as well). To know that I can save quite a few lives throughout…
on “Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?” ↗…longtermism has taken over much of the EA movement: > Disillusioned effective altruists are dismayed by the increasing predominance of “strong longtermism” ..[snip].. According to Benjamin Todd, a founder of 80,000 Hours, longtermism “might well turn out to be one of the most important discoveries of effective altruism so far” ..[snip].. Projects devoted to global health and poverty still garner the most funding, but…
on “The good delusion: has effective altruism broken bad?” ↗