Should you play to your comparative advantage when choosing your career? - 80,000 Hours
“Do the job that’s your comparative advantage” might sound obvious but it's not clear how much the concept applies.| 80,000 Hours
“Do the job that’s your comparative advantage” might sound obvious but it's not clear how much the concept applies.| 80,000 Hours
Many people think of Superman as a hero. But he may be the greatest example of underutilised talent in all of fiction.| 80,000 Hours
When you’re part of a community doing the most good becomes much more of a coordination problem.| 80,000 Hours
When we work together, we can do far more good in the world. We cover the basics of coordination and practical tips for doing it more effectively.| 80,000 Hours
We look at how to analyse these situations using moral philosophy, and then apply the results to some common options, like finance, law and the oil industry.| 80,000 Hours
Some people have skills that are better suited to earning money than the other strategies. These people can take a higher earning career and donate the money to effective organisations.| 80,000 Hours
See a brief update Aug 2022. In 2015, I argued that funding for effective altruism -- especially within meta or longtermist areas -- had grown faster than the number of people interested in it, and that this was likely to continue. This meant that there was a funding overhang, leading to a series of skill bottlenecks. A couple of years ago, I wondered if this trend was starting to reverse.| 80,000 Hours
