Arden here from 80,000 Hours—just an update: Ollie showed me this draft before posting and I thought he was right about a bunch of it, so we adjusted the write-up to put more emphasis on becoming skilled in an area before becoming a grantmaker in it being the ideal, plus added his 4 bullet point list to our section on assessing your fit.
We didn’t want to move away from calling it a “path” because we use that term to describe jobs/sets of jobs that one can do for many years, which we think could be among highest impact phases of one’s career, which this seems to fit.
Arden here from 80,000 Hours—just an update: Ollie showed me this draft before posting and I thought he was right about a bunch of it, so we adjusted the write-up to put more emphasis on becoming skilled in an area before becoming a grantmaker in it being the ideal, plus added his 4 bullet point list to our section on assessing your fit.
We didn’t want to move away from calling it a “path” because we use that term to describe jobs/sets of jobs that one can do for many years, which we think could be among highest impact phases of one’s career, which this seems to fit.
Thanks Arden!
I don’t have strong views on the specific path label on the website once you add the caveats you describe, I can see why you’d keep this!