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#36 - Tanya Singh on ending the operations management bottleneck in effective altruism

80,000 Hours Podcast

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The Importance of a Degree in Operations

The downside of working in operations is the kind of stress that putting out fires and dealing with ad hoc requests brings. I think if you're uncomfortable with ambiguity, if you get too tense about situations or too tense in situations where you're facing something that's broken...you could potentially be the reason they fail. There aren't very many people who are training, creating ops stuff in their own hands on this whole scene. So your learning and development is largely in yourhands. You learn more about yourself as you spend time learning.

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