We’re particularly interested in hearing about things that you, personally, would actually read // use // engage with
I would personally be excited about a filtering tool similar to the 80000 Hours job-board, that lets you filter resources for background, cause area, role type, etc. (E.g. “If your background is in economics, and you are particularly interested in animal welfare, we would recommend the following resources” )
Background:
I would distinguish the different concreteness levels of career advice/career-relevant information, maybe like this:
1. General, can be applied at almost any level and job, e.g. career capital, self-care, cause-prioritization,...
2. Role-specific, e.g. specific advice for entrepreneurship, PhD, …
3. Concrete, e.g. answering the questions “What are high-impact options for someone with a background in X?” “What are possible caveats in taking up job Y?”, …
The more concrete the information, the more it depends on the specific situation of the person that benefits from it—and is therefore harder to provide for a large number of people.
In my experience however, surprisingly often there was relatively concrete information available where someone addressed just the issue I was currently thinking about. So I think there is probably a bottleneck in actually finding this concrete information. I think having a filter for resources may help with that.
Possible Downsides:
* It may be too much work to implement this, especially the classification of articles regarding their usefulness for specific situations
* It might give the reader the impression that they have read everything relevant for their situation, and thereby reduce exploring other content that would have been useful.
Thank you! This viewpoint it really helpful. It seems relatively easy to look at a specific article and figure out who it might be useful for, but creating a generic way to organize articles that would work for most people is quite a bit harder.
And I agree that concreteness is definitely something we should be explicitly thinking about when creating content and organizing it.
And I agree regarding both downsides \ risks. They’re definitely something to think about. The first might mean that this is something that might come later if we don’t find a relatively simple way of doing this.
The second can probably be mitigated to a large extent if some effort but requires more thinking in any case. We’ve discussed this in related contexts (making sure we don’t counterfactually cause readers not to engage with other existing quality content), but not in this context.
I would personally be excited about a filtering tool similar to the 80000 Hours job-board, that lets you filter resources for background, cause area, role type, etc. (E.g. “If your background is in economics, and you are particularly interested in animal welfare, we would recommend the following resources” )
Background:
I would distinguish the different concreteness levels of career advice/career-relevant information, maybe like this:
1. General, can be applied at almost any level and job, e.g. career capital, self-care, cause-prioritization,...
2. Role-specific, e.g. specific advice for entrepreneurship, PhD, …
3. Concrete, e.g. answering the questions “What are high-impact options for someone with a background in X?” “What are possible caveats in taking up job Y?”, …
The more concrete the information, the more it depends on the specific situation of the person that benefits from it—and is therefore harder to provide for a large number of people.
In my experience however, surprisingly often there was relatively concrete information available where someone addressed just the issue I was currently thinking about. So I think there is probably a bottleneck in actually finding this concrete information. I think having a filter for resources may help with that.
Possible Downsides:
* It may be too much work to implement this, especially the classification of articles regarding their usefulness for specific situations
* It might give the reader the impression that they have read everything relevant for their situation, and thereby reduce exploring other content that would have been useful.
Thank you!
This viewpoint it really helpful. It seems relatively easy to look at a specific article and figure out who it might be useful for, but creating a generic way to organize articles that would work for most people is quite a bit harder.
And I agree that concreteness is definitely something we should be explicitly thinking about when creating content and organizing it.
And I agree regarding both downsides \ risks. They’re definitely something to think about. The first might mean that this is something that might come later if we don’t find a relatively simple way of doing this.
The second can probably be mitigated to a large extent if some effort but requires more thinking in any case. We’ve discussed this in related contexts (making sure we don’t counterfactually cause readers not to engage with other existing quality content), but not in this context.