Notes on how to best spend a career making an impact.

Strategies

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• 80,000 hours in career

• worth spending 1% of career to make the rest of the career slightly more impactful

• make sure to have a real positive impact

• focus on jobs that definitively put yourself in a better position

• there isn't much else to it

• effective altruism is their biggest solution - but this doesn't work.

Framing time

https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html

• how much do you do every year? realistically, what will you get to do in the future?

• what do you have the chance to do? what's important for you to do? reflect on this and visualize it.

Lessons

• Living in the same place with the people you love matters.

• Priorities are so imcredibly important.

• Quality time is incredibly valuable. Value the time you spend with others and treat it as such.

• Come back to write these things down!