How do you choose a career with significant positive impact, and successfully follow through? In this lesson we will learn tools for analyzing the impact of different career paths, while examining which career paths are a good fit for you as an individual, and learning several tools that can help advance your career in almost any field.
Additional reading:
- Introduction to Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
- Reasoning Transparency
- Bayes theorem, the geometry of changing beliefs
- An Introduction to Mathematical Modelling
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
- Products and Convolutions of Gaussian Probability Density Functions (very mathematically heavy, requires statistics background)
Tools we discussed in class:
- Google Scholar / Semantic Scholar
- Guidestar (Israeli charities)
- Bayes calculator (for boolean hypotheses)
- Gaussian posterior calculator (for merging quantitative estimates)
- Guesstimate (for building estimate models)