It seems like the main issue here is a disconnect between how 80k is generally described, including in its own guide (“career advice for EAs”/”how to use your career to increase your impact”), and 80k’s own internal vision of what it is (“how to solve important problems by directing talented people at them”). It seems that the former is a misrepresentation of the latter and people including 80k should stop misrepresenting it.
I think even the slightly out of date advice is still pretty good for getting people to think about the right ways to approach finding an impactful job.
There isn’t an alternative that I point people towards even if the latest content and coaching is more targeted than the general advice.
For the majority of their audience I think this is okay, but for people who might set up similar career coaching and content it might crowd them out, although this has already been mentioned in other comments.
It seems like the main issue here is a disconnect between how 80k is generally described, including in its own guide (“career advice for EAs”/”how to use your career to increase your impact”), and 80k’s own internal vision of what it is (“how to solve important problems by directing talented people at them”). It seems that the former is a misrepresentation of the latter and people including 80k should stop misrepresenting it.
I think even the slightly out of date advice is still pretty good for getting people to think about the right ways to approach finding an impactful job.
There isn’t an alternative that I point people towards even if the latest content and coaching is more targeted than the general advice.
For the majority of their audience I think this is okay, but for people who might set up similar career coaching and content it might crowd them out, although this has already been mentioned in other comments.