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Nine: Benjamin Todd on the key ideas of 80,000 Hours

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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The Fourth Path - Applying Skills to a Problem

Our categories are most relevant to people who are early at their career, and they have a lot of flexibility over what they end up doing. If you already have some very well developed skill, it's harder for us to give general advice, but there may well be a great way to apply that to one of these issues. And so i like to think of earning to give is like kind of deliberately earning more than you would have and then using that to denate more. Even if you're not sure how to use money right now, you can always save money and grow it and have more later,. When opportunities do arise, you can use it. There are places for doners to give

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