Really excited based on what I’ve read above. Some very hot takes before I go and read the detail...
It would be great to see some case studies in due course of people who applied this kind of thinking, what choices they made and what they learned; particularly to highlight other high impact careers which don’t align with priority paths. And it’s easier to make sense of how to use a technique—and how much relative effort to consider for each step—when you have other cases to refer to.
Finally, I hope this career planning process will help the community reframe what it means to have an ‘effective altruist career’. Effective altruism is focused on outcomes, and for good reasons; but focusing a lot on outcomes can have some bad side effects.
This is very welcomed. Drilling into another bad side effects of focusing on outcomes, I would be curious to see if this approach can help readers to make career decisions which are more compatible with a happy career / life. I suspect us EAs can be prone to a relentless focus on impact in the abstract, absolute sense to the detriment of thinking about what makes me personally impactful, and the latter is more likely to be where an individual will get results from placing their energy. And burnout is well worth avoiding because it’s a bloody pox and not fun!
I completely agree. Adding more examples, both lots of quick ones as well as longer case studies for each section, is perhaps our top priority for further work (with making it shorter / less overwhelming as the other contender).
Really excited based on what I’ve read above. Some very hot takes before I go and read the detail...
It would be great to see some case studies in due course of people who applied this kind of thinking, what choices they made and what they learned; particularly to highlight other high impact careers which don’t align with priority paths. And it’s easier to make sense of how to use a technique—and how much relative effort to consider for each step—when you have other cases to refer to.
This is very welcomed. Drilling into another bad side effects of focusing on outcomes, I would be curious to see if this approach can help readers to make career decisions which are more compatible with a happy career / life. I suspect us EAs can be prone to a relentless focus on impact in the abstract, absolute sense to the detriment of thinking about what makes me personally impactful, and the latter is more likely to be where an individual will get results from placing their energy. And burnout is well worth avoiding because it’s a bloody pox and not fun!
I completely agree. Adding more examples, both lots of quick ones as well as longer case studies for each section, is perhaps our top priority for further work (with making it shorter / less overwhelming as the other contender).