Notes on how to best spend a career making an impact.
Strategies
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80,000 hours in career
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worth spending 1% of career to make the rest of the career slightly more impactful
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make sure to have a real positive impact
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focus on jobs that definitively put yourself in a better position
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there isn't much else to it
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effective altruism is their biggest solution - but this doesn't work.
Framing time
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html
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how much do you do every year? realistically, what will you get to do in the future?
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what do you have the chance to do? what's important for you to do? reflect on this and visualize it.
Lessons
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Living in the same place with the people you love matters.
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Priorities are so imcredibly important.
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Quality time is incredibly valuable. Value the time you spend with others and treat it as such.
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Come back to write these things down!
- Open document (Hedgedoc) at https://doc.anagora.org/impact
- Video call (Jitsi) at https://meet.jit.si/impact