When making career decisions, put more weight on intuitions and gut feelings of excitement (in particular when based on actual experience, e.g., a representative work trial of the job youāre considering) - and less on impact estimates.
I think you probably mean in relation to types of work, activity, organisation, mindsets, aptitudes, etc., and not in relation to what cause areas or interventions youāre focusing on, right?
I.e., I think Iād often suggest people do focus mostly on impact estimates when choosing cause areas and maybe also interventions, but focus more on comparative advantage (using intuitions and gut feelings of excitement as some proxies for that) when choosing specific jobs, orgs, roles, paths, etc. Would you agree?
I think you probably mean in relation to types of work, activity, organisation, mindsets, aptitudes, etc., and not in relation to what cause areas or interventions youāre focusing on, right?
Basically yes. But I also think (and I understand Holden to say similar things in the OP) that āwhat cause area is most importantā is perhaps less relevant for career choice, especially early-career, than some people (and 80k advice [ETA: though I think itās more like my vague impression of what people including me perceive 80k advice to say, which might be quite different from what current 80k advice literally says if you engage a lot with their content]) think.
I think you probably mean in relation to types of work, activity, organisation, mindsets, aptitudes, etc., and not in relation to what cause areas or interventions youāre focusing on, right?
I.e., I think Iād often suggest people do focus mostly on impact estimates when choosing cause areas and maybe also interventions, but focus more on comparative advantage (using intuitions and gut feelings of excitement as some proxies for that) when choosing specific jobs, orgs, roles, paths, etc. Would you agree?
Basically yes. But I also think (and I understand Holden to say similar things in the OP) that āwhat cause area is most importantā is perhaps less relevant for career choice, especially early-career, than some people (and 80k advice [ETA: though I think itās more like my vague impression of what people including me perceive 80k advice to say, which might be quite different from what current 80k advice literally says if you engage a lot with their content]) think.