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4 biases to avoid in career decisions
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80K_HOURS_final.pdf
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Last glasped on Oct 16, 2023
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A step-by-step guide to getting a job, without the usual nonsense
80000hours.org/career-guide/how-to-get-a-job/
Last glasped on Jul 30, 2023
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AI governance and policy - Career review
80000hours.org/career-reviews/ai-policy-and-strategy/
Last glasped on Oct 20, 2024
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AI safety technical research
80000hours.org/career-reviews/ai-safety-researcher/
Last glasped on Jul 17, 2023
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Apply for advising
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Last glasped on Jul 13, 2024
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Cal Newport on an industrial revolution for office work
80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/cal-newport-industrial-revolution-for-office-work/
Last glasped on Sep 28, 2022
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Career planning: our eight-week course to help you have a high-impact career
80000hours.org/career-planning-landing-page/
Last glasped on Apr 15, 2023
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China-related AI safety and governance paths
80000hours.org/career-reviews/china-related-ai-safety-and-governance-paths/
Last glasped on Feb 4, 2024
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Christian Ruhl on why we're entering a new nuclear age — and how to reduce the risks
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Last glasped on Apr 5, 2024
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College advice
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Last glasped on Jan 28, 2024
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Communicating ideas
80000hours.org/skills/communication/
Last glasped on Sep 26, 2024
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Congressional staffers have surprising power over budgets & legislation. Here's what it takes to become one.
80000hours.org/career-reviews/congressional-staffer/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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Considering becoming an academic? Read this first.
80000hours.org/career-reviews/academic-research/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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David Denkenberger on using paper mills and seaweed to feed everyone in a catastrophe, ft Sahil Shah
80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/david-denkenberger-sahil-shah-using-paper-mills-and-seaweed-in-catastrophes/
Last glasped on Apr 5, 2024
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Elie Hassenfeld on 2 big picture critiques of GiveWell's approach, and 6 lessons from their recent work
80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/elie-hassenfeld-givewell-critiques-and-lessons/
Last glasped on Apr 12, 2024
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Everything you need to know about whether money makes you happy
80000hours.org/articles/money-and-happiness/
Last glasped on Aug 2, 2023
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Founder of new projects tackling top problems
80000hours.org/career-reviews/founder-impactful-organisations/?source=email&uni_id=206&utm_source=80%2C000+Hours+mailing+list&utm_campaign=e8e2e3f25b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_10_26_10_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_43bc1ae55c-be6455f8e9-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D
Last glasped on Oct 28, 2023
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From social skills to sleep patterns: all the self-help advice that actually works
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Last glasped on Jun 13, 2023
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Guide to working in artificial intelligence policy and strategy
80000hours.org/articles/ai-policy-guide/
Last glasped on Nov 30, 2023
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Haven't considered working in headhunting? It has some unexpected plusses.
80000hours.org/career-reviews/executive-search/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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How can you figure out which global problem is most pressing?
80000hours.org/articles/problem-framework/
Last glasped on Oct 22, 2024
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How many lives could you save by founding an effective development non-profit?
80000hours.org/career-reviews/founding-effective-global-poverty-non-profits/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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How many lives could you save if you went into biomedical research?
80000hours.org/career-reviews/biomedical-research/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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How many lives does a doctor save? (Part 1)
80000hours.org/articles/how-many-lives-does-a-doctor-save-part-1/
Last glasped on Aug 30, 2024
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How much do allied health professionals improve health? Should you become one?
80000hours.org/career-reviews/allied-health-professional/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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How much good can one person do? Here's what the evidence says.
80000hours.org/career-guide/can-one-person-make-a-difference/
Last glasped on Jul 11, 2023
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How to escape the career planning paradox
80000hours.org/career-guide/career-planning/
Last glasped on Jun 17, 2023
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How to generate ideas for longer-term paths
80000hours.org/career-planning/process/longer-term-paths/
Last glasped on Jun 5, 2024
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How to have a meaningful career with a large social impact
80000hours.org/career-guide/introduction/
Last glasped on Nov 23, 2022
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How to have a meaningful career with a large social impact
80000hours.org/career-guide/
Last glasped on Jun 21, 2023
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How to identify your personal strengths
80000hours.org/articles/personal-strengths/
Last glasped on Sep 27, 2023
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How you can change the world by being a program manager in an international organization
80000hours.org/career-reviews/program-manager-in-international-organisations/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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How you can use your career to end easily prevented diseases
80000hours.org/problem-profiles/health-in-poor-countries/
Last glasped on Nov 21, 2022
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If you want to change the world for the better, should you work in a think tank?
80000hours.org/career-reviews/think-tank-research/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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If you want to change the world should you start a startup?
80000hours.org/career-reviews/tech-entrepreneurship/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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If you want to do good, here’s why future generations should be your focus
80000hours.org/articles/future-generations/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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If you want to improve the world, is politics a good path?
80000hours.org/career-reviews/party-politics-uk/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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If you want to make the world a better place should you work in marketing?
80000hours.org/career-reviews/work-in-marketing/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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If you want to save lives should you be a doctor? Surprisingly: probably not.
80000hours.org/career-reviews/medical-careers/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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Influencing the Far Future
80000hours.org/2013/10/influencing-the-far-future/
Last glasped on Feb 6, 2023
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Is being a product manager in tech all it's cracked up to be?
80000hours.org/career-reviews/product-manager-in-tech/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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Is climate change the greatest threat facing humanity today?
80000hours.org/problem-profiles/climate-change/
Last glasped on Aug 19, 2022
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Is climate change the greatest threat facing humanity today?
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Last glasped on May 28, 2023
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Is pursuing fame a good way to make the world a better place?
80000hours.org/career-reviews/pursuing-fame-in-art-and-entertainment/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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Lewis Bollard on the 7 most promising ways to end factory farming, and whether AI is going to be good or bad for animals
80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/lewis-bollard-factory-farm-advocacy-gains/
Last glasped on May 22, 2024
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ML engineering for AI safety & robustness: a Google Brain engineer's guide to entering the field
80000hours.org/articles/ml-engineering-career-transition-guide/
Last glasped on Apr 24, 2022
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No matter your job, here's 3 evidence-based ways to have a real impact
80000hours.org/career-guide/making-a-difference/
Last glasped on Jul 11, 2023
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No one knew the world's worst problem so we spent 8 years trying to find it
80000hours.org/career-guide/world-problems/
Last glasped on Sep 25, 2023
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Philosophy is one of the hardest grad programs. Is it worth it, if you want to use ideas to change the world?
80000hours.org/career-reviews/philosophy-academia/
Last glasped on Jan 9, 2023
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Planning a high-impact career: a summary of everything you need to know in 7 points
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Last glasped on Aug 28, 2023
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Policy and research ideas to reduce existential risk
80000hours.org/2020/04/longtermist-policy-ideas/
Last glasped on May 20, 2023
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Preventing an AI-related catastrophe - Problem profile
80000hours.org/problem-profiles/artificial-intelligence/
Last glasped on Oct 18, 2023
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Promoting positive values
80000hours.org/problem-profiles/promoting-positive-values/
Last glasped on Jun 5, 2024
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Research questions that could have a big social impact, organised by discipline
80000hours.org/articles/research-questions-by-discipline/
Last glasped on Jul 10, 2023
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Research questions that could have a big social impact, organised by discipline
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Last glasped on Sep 8, 2023
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Richard Ngo on large language models, OpenAI, and striving to make the future go well
80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/richard-ngo-large-language-models/
Last glasped on Dec 20, 2022
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Should you go into management consulting to improve the world?
80000hours.org/career-reviews/management-consulting/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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Should you work for a non-profit? A research-backed analysis.
80000hours.org/career-reviews/effective-non-profits/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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Some causes are better than others
80000hours.org/articles/effective-or-not/
Last glasped on Jul 25, 2024
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Speak with us
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Last glasped on Feb 4, 2024
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Summary: what makes for a high-impact career?
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Last glasped on May 31, 2022
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The best way to make tough career decisions
80000hours.org/career-decision/article/
Last glasped on Jun 17, 2023
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The case for taking your technical expertise to the field of AI policy
80000hours.org/2024/03/the-case-for-taking-your-technical-expertise-to-the-field-of-ai-policy/?source=email&uni_id=0&utm_source=80%2C000+Hours+mailing+list&utm_campaign=1f0757ab7a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_08_29_02_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_43bc1ae55c-03e26f42f9-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D
Last glasped on Sep 5, 2024
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The end: A cheery final note - imagining your deathbed
80000hours.org/career-guide/end/
Last glasped on Jun 17, 2023
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The evidence on how to find the right career for you
80000hours.org/career-guide/personal-fit/
Last glasped on Oct 15, 2023
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The most useful skills for making a difference
80000hours.org/skills/
Last glasped on Feb 12, 2024
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The two ways people accidentally sabotage their career early on
80000hours.org/career-guide/career-capital/
Last glasped on Oct 15, 2023
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Thinking of becoming a software engineer? Read this.
80000hours.org/career-reviews/software-engineering/
Last glasped on Nov 4, 2022
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Thinking of becoming a teacher? Read this first.
80000hours.org/career-reviews/teaching/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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Thinking of becoming a web designer? Read this first.
80000hours.org/career-reviews/web-designer/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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Thinking of doing a machine learning PhD? Read this first.
80000hours.org/career-reviews/machine-learning-phd/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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Thinking of learning about data science? Read this first.
80000hours.org/career-reviews/data-science/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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Thinking of specialising in computer science? Read this first.
80000hours.org/career-reviews/computer-science-phd/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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Thinking of studying nursing? Read this first.
80000hours.org/career-reviews/nursing/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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Thinking of working in finance? Read this first.
80000hours.org/career-reviews/front-office-finance/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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This could be the most important century
80000hours.org/articles/the-most-important-century/
Last glasped on Aug 8, 2022
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This is your most important decision
80000hours.org/make-a-difference-with-your-career/
Last glasped on May 8, 2023
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Want a good income and work-life balance? Maybe you should you become an actuary
80000hours.org/career-reviews/actuarial-science/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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We change more than we expect
80000hours.org/2015/02/we-change-more-than-we-expect-so-keep-your-options-open/
Last glasped on Oct 21, 2023
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We reviewed 60 studies on what makes for a dream job. Here’s what we found.
80000hours.org/career-guide/job-satisfaction/
Last glasped on Nov 23, 2023
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What are the most pressing world problems?
80000hours.org/problem-profiles/
Last glasped on Jun 28, 2024
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What are the most pressing world problems?
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Last glasped on Mar 29, 2024
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What I learned quitting my job to found a tech startup
80000hours.org/2014/10/what-i-learned-quitting-my-job-to-found-a-tech-startup/
Last glasped on Mar 16, 2022
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What is social impact? A definition – 80,000 Hours
80000hours.org/articles/what-is-social-impact-definition/
Last glasped on Aug 1, 2024
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What should you look for in a job? Introducing our framework.
80000hours.org/articles/framework/
Last glasped on Jun 17, 2023
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What's the best charity to donate to? — Dec '19
80000hours.org/articles/best-charity/
Last glasped on Feb 16, 2023
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When powerful people make dumb choices it hurts us all. Here’s how to fix it.
80000hours.org/problem-profiles/improving-institutional-decision-making/
Last glasped on Oct 11, 2023
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Which global problem is most important to work on? What the evidence says.
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Last glasped on Sep 25, 2023
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Which global problem is most important to work on? What the evidence says.
80000hours.org/career-guide/most-pressing-problems/
Last glasped on Jul 16, 2023
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Why an economics PhD might be the best grad degree
80000hours.org/career-reviews/economics-phd/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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Why being an early startup employee could be the best career option for you
80000hours.org/career-reviews/startup-early-employee/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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Why despite global progress, humanity is probably facing its most dangerous time ever
80000hours.org/articles/existential-risks/
Last glasped on Nov 6, 2023
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Why Superman shouldn’t have fought crime and what this shows about doing good with your career
80000hours.org/career-guide/high-impact-jobs/
Last glasped on Jul 19, 2023
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Why we think promoting effective altruism is a great way to use your career
80000hours.org/problem-profiles/promoting-effective-altruism/
Last glasped on May 23, 2024
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Why, when, and how to get a US policy master's degree
80000hours.org/career-reviews/us-policy-masters-degrees/
Last glasped on Oct 20, 2024
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Working in US AI policy
80000hours.org/articles/us-ai-policy/
Last glasped on Oct 16, 2024
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Yes, a career in law has earning potential. We still don’t recommend it.
80000hours.org/career-reviews/uk-commercial-law-for-earning-to-give/
Last glasped on Oct 17, 2022
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You have 80,000 hours in your career.
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Last glasped on Jan 22, 2024
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