How to Do Good in Your Career

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How much good you can do in a particular career is going to depend on who you are. You have to take into account what you like and also of course your skills and what you're good at. How much does your advice depend on who the person is, like their personality or their interests? Because you know, well, doing the most good, it should just be about what you're doing.

What is 80,000 Hours? What sorts of people should become entrepreneurs? How can you run cheap experiments on yourself? What are some beneficial modes of philosophical thinking?

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.

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