How to start a career in technology (even if you studied art)
80,000 Hours: Oxford recently hosted a panel on careers in technology, co-hosted with Codelaborate, featuring four people who did arts degrees but ended up working in tech and loving their jobs. We...
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What’s it like being a nonprofit in Y Combinator?
Now the obligatory Tech Crunch article is out, I’m thrilled to announce we’ve been in Y Combinator (YC) since June. YC is widely regarded as the world’s best startup accelerator, and has supported...
View ArticleTake the growth approach to evaluating startup nonprofits, not the marginal...
In its first 2 years, Google made no revenue. Did this indicate it was a bad idea to invest or work there? We spent the summer in Y Combinator, and one of the main things we learned about is how Y...
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One of the most exciting new effective altruist organisations: An interview...
It’s my pleasure to introduce David Goldberg to those who in the effective altruism community who don’t yet know him. He’s behind the Founders Pledge, which in just 8 months has raised $64 million in...
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Podcast with Ben West, who expects to donate tens of millions for charity...
I recently interviewed Ben West (second to left), the founder of Health eFilings. After reading 80,000 Hours’ website, Ben entered tech entrepreneurship – from software engineering – in order to ‘earn...
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Doing good through for-profits: Wave and financial tech
Get the rest of our series on doing good through start-ups by signing up to our newsletter. Wave is one of the most high potential social impact for-profit startups we’re aware of, and it was...
View ArticleWhich professions are paid too much given their value to society?
Many jobs have spillover effects on the rest of society. For instance, the value of new treatments discovered by biomedical researchers is far greater than what they or their employers get paid, so...
View ArticleCal Newport on an industrial revolution for office work
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Software engineering
On December 31, 2021, the most valuable company on Earth was Apple, worth around $3 trillion. After that came Microsoft, at $2.5 trillion, then Google (officially Alphabet) at $1.9 trillion, then...
View ArticleSam Bankman-Fried on taking a high-risk approach to crypto and doing good
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Organisation-building
When most people think of careers that “do good,” the first thing they think of is working at a charity. The thing is, lots of jobs at charities just aren’t that impactful. Some charities focus on...
View ArticleMustafa Suleyman on getting Washington and Silicon Valley to tame AI
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View ArticleSpencer Greenberg on causation without correlation, money and happiness,...
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View ArticleKen Goldberg on why your robot butler isn’t here yet
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