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> "I find this website absurd. Is it really just articles by random people which give high-level advice on how to have a career? ... This is garbage and just not redeemable."

Thanks for your feedback. If you look around you'll see it's almost all written by a handful of full-time staff - this piece from an anonymous contributor is almost unique.

Most articles we write at this point are less high-level than this one, though pages that focus on general advice which is applicable to a wide range of people naturally attract the most traffic.



> Most articles we write at this point are less high-level than this one

Flipping through a few pages and I don't see anything all hat redeemable. It's all very generic stuff that "motivational speakers" repeat over and over in slightly different ways. Like, I don't see any specific advice for anything that would allow you to take direct, measurable action.

I get why you do it, though. Like you said, those pages attract the most traffic. It's just my opinion that it adds to the garbage online that does the opposite of helping people.


Hi BinaryIdiot - while I don't agree that all of that kind of advice is not useful, most pages of that kind were written some time ago.

I think you'll find that the content we are currently working on, such as our podcast, are more concrete: https://80000hours.org/podcast/


Is there anything about this staff of writers that qualifies them to give valuable advice to the types of people that frequent hacker news?


https://80000hours.org/about/meet-the-team/

I count three doctorates, a medical doctor, a Yale Law dropout and a Master’s in Philosophy. More importantly, they actually do research.


Are they giving advice on how to become a doctorate, medical doctor or dropout?

I know several people with letters before and after their names with impressive sounding job titles who are pretty clueless about what they actually want out of life and how to be happy.


Yes. 8000 hours was in YC for non-profits.




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