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Comment by BenjaminTodd | Hacker News Reader

Hi everyone,

I'm the author of the piece. If you know any other good resources or statistics we should incorporate, I'm keen to hear about them. If you disagree with something, feedback is very welcome.

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Please get rid of the annoying "this will only take a second" popup, I was reading but closed the window immediately when that shit started.

Sorry about that. I find popups annoying too. Unfortunately we just find we get a way higher conversion to the newsletter when we use popups, and since people need to engage over several months to get value out of the advice, getting people onto the newsletter is really important.

Why don't you offer the content all at once instead of dividing it into 9 weeks of 15-minute chunks once a week? I'd rather spend the 2 hours to read all of it at once, instead of having to wait 9 weeks to read it.

Hey tbirdz, sorry if this was unclear but you can read the whole thing whenever you like by starting here and just going through: https://80000hours.org/career-guide/

Or you can watch the whole thing starting here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VRL-ByuQuo&list=PL-BRtcBm4Y...

Most people don't have time all at once and report wanting to do it in a few sessions.

Where on the site wasn't sufficiently direct about that? :)

We'll also add a free ebook at some point.

Just a side comment, these are starting to be called "doorslams," and you may also be interested in alternative views of your "No thanks, I don't want a raise" dismissal link at http://confirmshaming.tumblr.com/

Thanks; some of these are so bad they reminded me of [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tunnel_under_the_World

I understand the pop up.

However, the sign-up should not take me away from the article. I mean, putting in my email took me to another page in the same tab (not a new one). Also, The landing page post-giving-you-my-email gave me another sign-up pop up. Both these things are super annoying.

Content is good though.

Hey thenobsta, that's a good point about it redirecting you to another page. I'll discuss it with our tech guy tomorrow.

Ug, we've been having a lot of problems with our new popup plugin. Once you're signed up, it should turn off all popups. Maybe you're blocking cookies, or it didn't take effect yet.

I agree it would be better to take you back to where you were reading, it's a lot more complex to set up though.

It isn't any harder than saving the current url to a cookie and redirecting to that value afterwards.

Hi there. I just wrote a full length guidebook on the portion you refer as "Leads". I call them "Informational Interviews". Book is available for free at and I'd love to partner with you guys to reach more people! Content here: http://www.grahamwahlberg.com/book

cool, I'll take a read

Have you read Nick Corcodilos's Reinventing the Interview? There is a lot of overlap with your advice (understand the employer's problems, explain your value, etc.) Related to "Do free work", something I always liked, he recommends you actually do the work you're being hired for in the interview. How better to demonstrate how capable you are?

no, thanks, I'll check it out.

In part 1, income vs life satisfaction, maybe for correctness you could mention that the functions don't taper off, they behave logarithmic.

Positive effect, stress and feeling sad taper off, while life satisfaction is log. I don't think we say life satisfaction tapers off, but it's a bit unclear.

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