An entrepreneur might spend, you know, 1% of your time deciding what to do. And then the right 99% is just like executing. I really wish I'd done a lot more thinking and exploration and investment in figuring out what are good things to like.
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Arden Koehler is a researcher and writer at 80,000 Hours, a nonprofit whose mission is to help people use their careers to help solve the world's most pressing problems, and an active member of the effective altruism community. Arden has a PhD in philosophy from New York University, with a specialisation in ethics and attitudes toward time, and a B.A. in philosophy from University of California, Berkeley. You can check out her work at 80,000 Hours, and you can email her at arden@80000hours.org.