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#42 – Habiba Islam on Planning a High-Impact Career and Ambitious Altruism

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The Different Motivations for High Impact Work

I'm not the kind of person who is very signed up to a specific view of maybe that only consequences matter and only well fair, increasing well fair matters. So I have a mix of these different things going on. What drew me to effective altruism in the early days was particularly the sense of being born into a really incredible amount of privilegeBeing from a middle class family in the UK feels like way more than I need but there are lots of other people in the world that don’t have those access to those opportunities that I do.

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