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How can we optimise for a meaningful life?

Not Overthinking

CHAPTER

The Importance of Optimizing Things

i like optimising things, but if you don't have a goal, then it's us kind of purposeless. A couple of years ago i came across this movement called effective altruism. And to someone like me, yo'r like authorizing things. Theys just clicked, like, ye course, am. But can i rally do anything about this? Amd and i realized that one of the few things that actually did seem worth making a central purpose was i want to make progress in the world's bi problems and make the world a better place. I'm also the kind of person who gets influenced pretty socially by my closest friends - ten out of 10 people are very true for

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