BenjaminTodd

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by BenjaminTodd 9y ago
We mainly rely on review papers, meta-analysis and expert consensus, rather than single unpowered studies. However, you don't need to have strong evidence behind a technique for it to be worth trying – if the upside is high enough or t
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by BenjaminTodd 9y ago
If the evidence is in the footnotes (and further reading) then doesn't that mean it's not useless cliches?
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by BenjaminTodd 9y ago
Hey, I clarified the situation in the intro: > In many cases, the evidence isn’t as strong as we’d like. Rather, it’s the best we’re aware of. We’ve tried to come to an all-considered view of what makes sense to try, given (i) the streng
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by BenjaminTodd 9y ago
I'd like to find a better resource to link to. For now I've clarified that we cover advice on how to exercise more here: https://80000hours.org/career-guide/how-to-be-successful/#9-...
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by BenjaminTodd 9y ago
We cover a ton of advice on that in this section: https://80000hours.org/career-guide/how-to-be-successful/#9-...
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by BenjaminTodd 9y ago
We mention that on our full article on job satisfaction: https://80000hours.org/career-guide/job-satisfaction/
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by BenjaminTodd 9y ago
We try to summarise the best advice we've found in the article: https://80000hours.org/career-guide/how-to-be-successful/#5-... But we'd like to find more.
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by BenjaminTodd 9y ago
Yeah, the difference is that "positive psychology" is scientific field, and they haven't discovered that "thinking positive" helps with being more successful. I changed the title of the sub-section.
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by BenjaminTodd 9y ago
I agree the titles sound obvious, but within each section we have lots of actionable advice (e.g. books to read about specific decision-making advice, the best tips we've found on how to save money, ideas for specific cities to move to
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by BenjaminTodd 9y ago
Unfortunately, it seems like industry hubs are more dominant than ever, despite the rise of remote work and the internet. So if you're trying to get the top of an industry, the arguments for moving still exist. But it certainly doesn&#
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by BenjaminTodd 9y ago
We think both personal fit and meaningfulness matter a lot for job satisfaction, so it would just come down to exactly how bad you are at the work, or how little you care about it :) https://80000hours.org/career-guide/
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by BenjaminTodd 9y ago
I added a paragraph to the introduction to clarify.
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by BenjaminTodd 9y ago
Hi hannob, we agree lots of the evidence is weak, and try to point that out during the post. We're trying to give an all-considered view of what makes sense to try, taking into account (i) strength of evidence (ii) upside (iii) cost of
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by BenjaminTodd 9y ago
Yeah that title doesn't really convey what we mean. I'll change it.
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by BenjaminTodd 9y ago
Thanks. We intended it as a reminder of that at the end. The rest of our guide covers some of these questions in earlier articles.
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by BenjaminTodd 9y ago
We use optinmonster, which we wanted to turn off, but their service just went down. Really need to migrate off these guys...
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by BenjaminTodd 9y ago
Hey, I'm the author of the post. Happy to take questions, and keen to hear ideas about what else we might add.
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How accurately does anyone know the global distribution of income?(80000hours.org)
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by BenjaminTodd 10y ago
Hi, I'm the author of the post. Happy to take questions.
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No-one knew the world's worst problem, so we spent 8 years trying to find it(80000hours.org)
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Global priorities research – an intro(80000hours.org)
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A quantitative framework for comparing global problems(80000hours.org)
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The effective altruism guide donating this giving season(80000hours.org)
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A cost-benefit analysis of voting(80000hours.org)
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How much does one vote matter?(80000hours.org)
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Ask HN: What's the most mind blowing video demo of a recent ML breakthrough?
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by BenjaminTodd 10y ago
There's a section in the article about to try explore while minimising the costs.
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by BenjaminTodd 10y ago
Yeah, we learned from startup strategy when thinking about career strategy. For more on that: http://www.thestartupofyou.com/
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by BenjaminTodd 10y ago
Hi everyone, I'm the lead author of the post and happy to answer questions.
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by BenjaminTodd 10y ago
Hey there - just adding to Rob's comment: I actually think automation makes it more important to gain strong skills rather than less, because it's increasing inequality. It's just you need to gain transferable skills that a

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