80,000 Hours: Review and Summary Notes
80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good by Benjamin Todd
Review
This is THE career advice book that supercedes all career advice books. You want to think about your career from first principles, not by taking “advice” from “successful” people whose path to success can no longer be followed because today’s world has vastly changed.
Notes
The most important thing I learned was thinking about impact in expected value terms, instead of absolute achievement terms, and also the idea of “neglectedness”: 80000hours.org/articles/problem-framework