{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"80,000 Hours Podcast","title":"#71 - Benjamin Todd on the key ideas of 80,000 Hours","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":10649,"description":"The 80,000 Hours Podcast is about “the world’s most pressing problems and how you can use your career to solve them”, and in this episode we tackle that question in the most direct way possible. \n\nLast year we published a summary of all our key ideas, which links to many of our other articles, and which we are aiming to keep updated as our opinions shift. \n\nAll of us added something to it, but the single biggest contributor was our CEO and today's guest, Ben Todd, who founded 80,000 Hours along with Will MacAskill back in 2012. \n\nThis key ideas page is the most read on the site. By itself it can teach you a large fraction of the most important things we've discovered since we started investigating high impact careers. \n\n• Links to learn more, summary and full transcript. \n\nBut it's perhaps more accurate to think of it as a mini-book, as it weighs in at over 20,000 words. \n\nFortunately it's designed to be highly modular and it's easy to work through it over multiple sessions, scanning over the articles it links to on each topic. \n\nPerhaps though, you'd prefer to absorb our most essential ideas in conversation form, in which case this episode is for you. \n\nIf you want to have a big impact with your career, and you say you're only going to read one article from us, we recommend you read our key ideas page. \n\nAnd likewise, if you're only going to listen to one of our podcast episodes, it should be this one. We have fun and set a strong pace, running through: \n\n• Common misunderstandings of our advice \n• A high level overview of what 80,000 Hours generally recommends \n• Our key moral positions \n• What are the most pressing problems to work on and why? \n• Which careers effectively contribute to solving those problems? \n• Central aspects of career strategy like how to weigh up career capital, personal fit, and exploration \n• As well as plenty more. \n\nOne benefit of this podcast over the article is that we can more easily communicate uncertainty, and dive into the things...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/VO1STE7hN95RRg9QdLo4soV2VhhbR9PF5ZZlRhDYcwE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQxNDAyLzE2ODM1/NDQ1NDAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}