I’d be doing less good with my life if I hadn’t heard of effective altruism
I think I was pretty close to getting stuck in a semi-random corporate career path. I was always sympathetic to EA like ideas. But I think seeing EA’s actually ‘do the thing’ made me think I could and should do the thing too. I remember some feeling of “Well, I think that’s 100% the correct approach, and I guess if these people are doing it I have no excuse but to do it too”
I think I was pretty close to getting stuck in a semi-random corporate career path. I was always sympathetic to EA like ideas. But I think seeing EA’s actually ‘do the thing’ made me think I could and should do the thing too. I remember some feeling of “Well, I think that’s 100% the correct approach, and I guess if these people are doing it I have no excuse but to do it too”