Core Concepts

Career Capital

The most important goal in the first years of your career is making sure you can achieve more over the coming decades.

Counterfactual Impact

Many people help yet still fail to make a difference. What does impact mean anyway, and how can we make sure we meaningfully help others?

Cause Neutrality

How should we prioritize between different causes we could support? Is it possible to be objective, or at least less biased?

Comparative Advantage

What role would be most impactful depends not only on your skills - but also how others compare.

Neglectedness

Though joining extremely popular movements with billions of dollars may be exciting, many of the best opportunities lie in neglected causes.

Marginal Impact

Is supporting impactful projects always the best way to achieve impact? And how do you know how much impact you're generating?

Expected Value

How can we compare our options when we don't know what the outcomes of our decisions will be with certainty? A simple, yet powerful tool.

Leverage

Increasing your leverage will let you direct more resources towards important problems.

Diminishing Returns

More isn't always better. Read about why we often expect our first dollar to be worth way more than our hundredth.

Effective Altruism

Get to know the social movement using evidence and reason to identify to most effective ways to help others.

80,000 Hours

80,000 Hours is the leading impact-focused career guidance site, and has an immense amount of useful resources.

Earning to Give

Direct work isn't the only way you can help. If you're a potential high earner, your salary may be your greatest asset.