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Anonymous answers: Are there myths you feel obliged to support publicly? And five other questions.
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Anonymous answers: the complete collection
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Anonymous answers: the complete collection
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Anonymous contributors answer: How should the effective altruism community think about diversity?
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Anonymous contributors answer: What are the biggest flaws of the effective altruism community?
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February
Anonymous contributors answer: What are the biggest flaws of 80,000 Hours?
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Anonymous contributors answer: Should the effective altruism community grow faster or slower? And should it be broader, or narrower?
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Anonymous contributors answer: What’s some underrated general life advice?
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Anonymous contributors answer: How honest & candid should high-profile people really be?
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Anonymous contributors answer: What’s one way to be successful you don’t think people talk about enough?
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Anonymous contributors answer: What mistakes do people most often make when deciding what work to do?
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Anonymous contributors answer: What bad habits do you see among people trying to improve the world?
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Anonymous answers: How risk-averse should talented young people be about their careers?
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Anonymous contributors answer: If you were 18 again, what would you do differently this time around? And other personal career reflections.
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Anonymous answers: What’s the thing people most overrate in their career?
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Anonymous answers: How have you seen talented people fail in their work?
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Anonymous advice: What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your name on?
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Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young
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