Your Goal Isn’t Really to Get a Job - by Matt Beard

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It’s to build the skills required to solve the problems that you want to solve in the world

I’m often asked how to have an impactful fulfilling career. My four word answer is “get good, be known.” My “fits on a postcard” answer is something like this: Identify a problem with a vast scale of harm that is neglected at current margins and that is tractable to solve. Millions will die of preventable diseases this year, billions of animals will be tortured, severe tail risks like nuclear war and catastrophic pandemics still exist, and we might be on the cusp of a misaligned intelligence explosion. You should find an important problem to work on. Obsessively improve at rare and…

Your Goal Isn’t Really to Get a Job - by Matt Beard

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