80,000 Hours

A ridiculously in-depth guide about how to find that perfect career for you. – DR ALI ABDAAL, author of Feel-Good Productivity
This career guide is among the most thoughtful and grounded I’ve seen. – PROFESSOR CAL NEWPORT, author of Deep Work
Every college grad should read this. – TIM URBAN, creator of Wait But Why
Based on evidence and good sense, not platitudes. – PROFESSOR STEVEN PINKER, author of Enlightenment Now
If you’re worried about wasting your life, read this book … It’s the most careful and honest guide I know to choosing a career that actually makes a difference. I wish I had it when I was young! – RUTGER BREGMAN, author of Humankind
The most informative book you can read if you’re stuck trying to make one of life’s most important decisions. If this had been published a decade earlier, it’d have saved me many restless nights. – HANNAH RITCHIE, author of Not the End of the World
Perhaps no one has thought harder about how to spend your working life than Benjamin Todd of 80,000 Hours. This book is a lively, readable, thorough guide to one of life’s most consequential decisions. – BRIAN CHRISTIAN, UC Berkeley researcher and bestselling author of Algorithms to Live By
The best book ever written about how to have a fulfilling and impactful career. – LIV BOEREE, poker champion and science communicator

Benjamin Todd is the founder and president of 80,000 Hours. Dissatisfied with the career advice he received at university, he began researching the guidance he wished he’d had. Over the next ten years, he grew 80,000 Hours from a student society in Oxford into a non-profit with millions of readers that’s been covered in the Financial Times, Guardian, Wall Street Journal, and BBC News. Today, the organization has over 50 staff and has led thousands to change career paths, including people who have helped launch the field of AI safety, taken key roles preventing the next pandemic, and donated hundreds of millions of dollars to charity. Benjamin holds a Master’s degree in Physics and Philosophy from Oxford, and speaks Chinese, badly.

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