It genuinely was a lightbulb moment—the idea that doing the most good might mean making a bunch of money and giving it to someone who can do the good thing better than you can.
And, maybe most importantly, it turned me on to ‘doing good’ in general. If I’m honest, I hadn’t really considered it as a priority before then. A couple years later I took an 80K career consultation, went into software engineering, pledged to give away 10%+ and am now in the early stages of starting an EA org!
For me, the very first ‘EA’ thing I came across was from before EA was a thing: Eliezer Yudkowsky’s post on money as the unit of caring. https://​​www.lesswrong.com/​​posts/​​ZpDnRCeef2CLEFeKM/​​money-the-unit-of-caring
It genuinely was a lightbulb moment—the idea that doing the most good might mean making a bunch of money and giving it to someone who can do the good thing better than you can.
And, maybe most importantly, it turned me on to ‘doing good’ in general. If I’m honest, I hadn’t really considered it as a priority before then. A couple years later I took an 80K career consultation, went into software engineering, pledged to give away 10%+ and am now in the early stages of starting an EA org!