How to make the most important choice of your life
TL;DR
The average person works 80,000 hours over the course of their career. Ideally, that time should be fulfilling, well-paid, and spent doing things that make the world a better place. Of course that’s much, much easier said than done. In an increasingly fragile job market made still more fraught by AI, there’s no longer such a thing as a safe bet.
Nauti's Take
The opportunity: Todd's framework brings real structure to career thinking at a moment when AI is melting old safe bets — a genuine chance for people who want their work to count. The catch: the effective-altruism lens narrows the field to hard problems like AI safety or biosecurity, pushing many readers into a tight talent pipeline with high entry barriers.
Nauti's view: a sharp compass for ambitious tech professionals, but too narrow to serve as a universal career fix.
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