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#57 – Tom Kalil on how to do the most good in government

80,000 Hours Podcast

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The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Aala: I ended up at the white house office of science and technology policy for the flat years from m two thousand nine to two thousand, yet. Won't be o kee responsibilities. My primary role would be a advising the person that a president o bama had designated as his science adviser. And then i asked john if i could start recruiting people a to work on various projects that i thought were interesting. So my job was to help whoever obama was going to appoint to be science adviser get ready to do that job.

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