Hi Everyone, this is my introduction post. I’ve put some info in my bio, so I’ll elaborate on it here. You can find out a little more about me here https://snlawrence.com/. I was introduced to EA through an interview with William MacAskill on Sam Harris’ meditation app, Waking Up. In the interview, William mentioned 80000 hours, which I then googled after. I began reading through their key idea and career review articles and was quickly convinced of the value of doing impactful work over my career. The articles are well written, well researched and very honest about their shortcomings, something I had rarely encountered before. I didn’t have a strong conviction of any particular career pathway and was at a bit of a loss for what sort of jobs to look for after my PhD was finished. I completed the career planning guide and applied for and did a career counselling session at the start of 2021. Now that I am much closer to finishing my PhD, I find myself with the opportunity to spend the remainder of this year doing low-cost experiments in impactful career pathways to get information about where I may have a competitive advantage for doing impactful work in the longer-term. Currently, I am considering software development, data science, R&D and becoming a founder as potential ‘experiments’. After my final PhD thesis submission, I intend to spend time fleshing out what these ‘experiments’ would look like and what the expected value of each would be so that I can rank them and select which to do. Hopefully, I can share this progress here with the EA community as I go! I’d be interested to hear from anyone who has done, or is doing, something similar.
Hi Sean, we met online last year and through 80,000 hours, nice to see you on the forum! Let’s keep the conversation going, I’m in a similar boat looking to maximise exploration value over the 24 months—keen to trade ideas.
Hi Everyone, this is my introduction post. I’ve put some info in my bio, so I’ll elaborate on it here. You can find out a little more about me here https://snlawrence.com/.
I was introduced to EA through an interview with William MacAskill on Sam Harris’ meditation app, Waking Up. In the interview, William mentioned 80000 hours, which I then googled after. I began reading through their key idea and career review articles and was quickly convinced of the value of doing impactful work over my career. The articles are well written, well researched and very honest about their shortcomings, something I had rarely encountered before. I didn’t have a strong conviction of any particular career pathway and was at a bit of a loss for what sort of jobs to look for after my PhD was finished. I completed the career planning guide and applied for and did a career counselling session at the start of 2021.
Now that I am much closer to finishing my PhD, I find myself with the opportunity to spend the remainder of this year doing low-cost experiments in impactful career pathways to get information about where I may have a competitive advantage for doing impactful work in the longer-term. Currently, I am considering software development, data science, R&D and becoming a founder as potential ‘experiments’. After my final PhD thesis submission, I intend to spend time fleshing out what these ‘experiments’ would look like and what the expected value of each would be so that I can rank them and select which to do. Hopefully, I can share this progress here with the EA community as I go! I’d be interested to hear from anyone who has done, or is doing, something similar.
Hi Sean, we met online last year and through 80,000 hours, nice to see you on the forum! Let’s keep the conversation going, I’m in a similar boat looking to maximise exploration value over the 24 months—keen to trade ideas.