Announcing the 80,000 Hours Substack

So, we finally gave in to peer pressure — 80,000 Hours is trying out Substack as a new way to publish our content. If you like reading things on Substack (or want to try it out), subscribe to our new publication!

For readers unfamiliar with Substack: it’s an online blogging platform that has risen steeply in popularity in recent years¹, and has become a home to some of the best longform written content about AI and its risks.

So, over the coming weeks, we’ll be cross-posting some of our favourite (and best-reviewed) pieces to our new Substack.

This is an experiment, and we might publish more depending on how much interest we get — so let us know what you’d like to see, by sending us an email (or tell us not to bother with Substack!).

Our first post is, naturally, on the key motivation behind 80,000 Hours: why your career is your biggest opportunity to make a difference to the world.

Who should subscribe?

• If you’d like to be sent some of our all-time best content
• If you’d value getting recommendations and “re-stacks” of publications we think our audience would love
• If you want to show interest in us investing more in Substack, e.g. by writing Substack-exclusive articles
• If you want to join discussions with others in the comments section

What’s not changing:

• We won’t ever paywall or run ads in any of our content.
• For now, we’ll keep sending newsletters on this list as normal.
  • However, if there’s lots of demand, we might migrate to Substack later.

Subscribe here

Alternatively, if you know someone who might like to read our new publication, we’d really appreciate if you shared it with them!

Or, let us know why you’re not subscribing — just drop us an email (we’d love to hear from you!)