Could you please say a little bit more about the things 80k does vs doesn’t plan to do? It wasn’t clear to me from your post what you think would be (1) replication of 80k’s work and, if relevant, (2) replication 80k would object to. Even if there’s nothing in (2), people might still think “well, if 80k is basically going to do X, I should do something else”.
FWIW, my model of 80k is that it plans to do careers advising focusing heavily (but not entirely) on longtermism. Hence, I interpreted your post as saying “feel free to do careers advising in other areas as well as various other career-related projects!”
Sorry I wasn’t clear: We not only don’t object to replication—we’re actively enthusiastic about it. I think a healthy ecosystem has a bunch of different people trying to do the same thing and seeing how they go.
Since I run the 1on1 team, I’m not well placed to comment on what 80k as a whole plans to do.
You’re right that the majority, but not all, of people we talk to have some interest in helping others over the longterm as well as present day. I expect that to continue being mostly true, at least over the coming year.
Could you please say a little bit more about the things 80k does vs doesn’t plan to do? It wasn’t clear to me from your post what you think would be (1) replication of 80k’s work and, if relevant, (2) replication 80k would object to. Even if there’s nothing in (2), people might still think “well, if 80k is basically going to do X, I should do something else”.
FWIW, my model of 80k is that it plans to do careers advising focusing heavily (but not entirely) on longtermism. Hence, I interpreted your post as saying “feel free to do careers advising in other areas as well as various other career-related projects!”
Sorry I wasn’t clear: We not only don’t object to replication—we’re actively enthusiastic about it. I think a healthy ecosystem has a bunch of different people trying to do the same thing and seeing how they go.
Since I run the 1on1 team, I’m not well placed to comment on what 80k as a whole plans to do.
You’re right that the majority, but not all, of people we talk to have some interest in helping others over the longterm as well as present day. I expect that to continue being mostly true, at least over the coming year.