What are publicly available BOTECs people did for career choices?

By geoffrey @ 2024-09-06T22:45 (+18)

BOTEC means back-of-the-envelope calculation. This can take the form of a few rows in a spreadsheet where someone estimates their counterfactual lives saved / donations induced / welfare improved from a set of choices (ex. doing direct work instead of earning to give).

I have heard of people using these to inform career choices but haven’t seen too many in the wild (even anonymously).

NunoSempere @ 2024-09-12T01:34 (+5)

Here are some I made for Benjamin Todd (previously mentioned here)... right before FTX went down. Not sure how well they've aged.

geoffrey @ 2024-09-18T04:19 (+3)

Thanks, this is exactly what I'm looking for.

Accuracy isn't too important here. More interested in how people approach this

Rasool @ 2024-09-22T12:48 (+1)

There's some of that in these posts:

https://lynettebye.com/blog/2024/5/2/how-to-make-hard-decisions-and-have-impact

https://lynettebye.com/blog/2024/7/29/my-career-exploration-tools-for-building-confidence

Though it's more focussed on generating ideas and testing them