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🗓️ 16 November 2014
⏱️ 51 minutes
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0:00.0 | Rationally speaking is a presentation of New York City skeptics dedicated to promoting critical thinking, skeptical inquiry, and science education. |
0:22.6 | For more information, please visit us at NYCCEPTICs.org. |
0:31.1 | Welcome to Rationally Speaking, the podcast where we explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense. |
0:41.1 | I'm your host, Massimo Filucci, and with me, as always, is my co-host, Julia Galev. |
0:45.7 | Julia, what are we going to talk about today? |
0:48.3 | Massimo, today, we are pleased to welcome special guest Benjamin Todd. |
0:54.0 | Ben is the co-founder and executive director of the |
0:57.6 | nonprofit 80,000 hours, which is affiliated with Oxford, and we're going to talk about what they do |
1:03.7 | on the show today. Ben graduated with honors from Oxford in physics and philosophy. And before founding 80,000 hours, or before taking charge of 80,000 hours, he was the first |
1:16.2 | undergraduate to intern as an analyst at a top investment fund. |
1:20.2 | And rather than taking the job that was offered to him, he persuaded the chairman to donate |
1:24.2 | £60,000 to 80,000 hours in their work. So clearly has powers of |
1:29.6 | persuasion as well as general intellect. Ben, welcome to the show. Hi, it's great to be here. |
1:36.1 | Great to have you. So, Ben, 80,000 hours. That's the average length of a career, isn't it? Is it not? |
1:42.3 | Yeah, it's just a rough figure for a kind of 40 times 50 times 50 |
1:47.2 | typical working life. And the idea of the name is that it's a pretty long time, but it's also |
1:54.1 | finite. So it's really worth spending a bit of time thinking about how to use those hours to do |
2:00.2 | something worthwhile. |
2:02.5 | And by worthwhile, I can imagine many different things that could mean. |
2:06.3 | How does 80,000 hours think about what's worthwhile? |
2:10.2 | Well, so we focus on helping people to make a difference with their careers. |
2:17.1 | And by make a difference, we just mean that very broadly, |
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