How to Increase the Positive Impact of Your Career 100-Fold: an Introduction to Effective Altruism
You have 80,000 hours in your career: 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year, for a solid 40 years. That’s a huge amount of time. Choose wisely, and you will not only have a more rewarding and interesting life, you’ll also be able to help solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. But how should you choose?
Join us in Café de Krater for a talk on how to incorporate impact considerations into your career decisions. We'll critically examine human development, the biases that distort our perception of impact, and explore a more structured way of thinking about this topic. Learn how to practically apply these insights to your career choices as an introduction to the Effective Altruism Movement. After the talk there will be a guided discussion where you will get the opportunity to meet and connect with others. No previous experience or knowledge is required!
19:00 walk in
19:15 talk by Stef
19:45 Structured discussion
20:00 Q & A
20:15 drinks & chats 🥂 (First drink is on us!)
Effective altruism is a research field, philosophy, and social movement. It is about using evidence and reason to to find and pursue the best ways to improve the world.
At EA Amsterdam, we mainly discuss the practical & philosophical issues surrounding the world's most pressing problems and what we can do to mitigate them. If you'd like to discuss topics like ethics, pandemics, risks from AI, climate change and global poverty in an open-minded and truth-seeking environment, or/and discuss what actions you can engage in to benefit others tremendously, then please join us.
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