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I recently spent some time reflecting on my career and my life, for a few reasons:

• It was my 29th birthday, an occasion which felt like a particularly natural time to think through what I wanted to accomplish over the course of the next year 🙂.
• It seems like AI progress is heating up.
• It felt like a good time to reflect on how Redwood has been going, because we’ve been having conversations with funders about getting more funding.

I wanted to have a better answer to these questions:

• What’s the default trajectory that I should plan for my career to follow? And what does this imply for what I should be doing right now?
• How much urgency should I feel in my life?
• How hard should I work?
• How much should I be trying to do the most valuable-seeming thing, vs engaging in more playful exploration and learning?

Original article:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2DzLY6YP2z5zRDAGA/a-freshman-year-during-the-ai-midgame-my-approach-to-the

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