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How this track works

The aim of this track is for you, at the end of it, to have explored 4 cause areas that are candidates for top global issues that you should prioritise. You'll also have heard arguments for several more.
The idea is to (1) broaden your horizons on cause areas that you consider important; and also (2) to conduct your 'due diligence' on causes that you think might be important but which you haven't yet had the time to properly form an opinion about.
This is also a time for you to make progress on forming opinions on big picture moral and strategic considerations that would affect your cause prioritisation - such as longtermism and moral patienthood.
In contrast to other EA programs and reading groups, we'd like you to pay special attention to the relevance of these questions in relation to what you might actually go on to do in your career. These questions are important because they affect what you'll be doing for 40 years of your life!
In each week of this track, you'll pick a cause area to research, and you'll present your findings to your facilitator for input.
At the end of this track, you will be in a position to do the Investigating job paths + Finding ways to make a difference track. You'll leave this track with a current best guess of top global issues to work on, and then try and work out longer-term job paths that would allow you to address your priority issues.
Technically, you can spend forever 'exploring cause areas.' The idea isn't that you'll have worked out your final view on everything, but we hope you'll leave with a prioritisation that you're happy enough with to start making career plans on.

What it looks like for this track to go well

We think a failure mode of this track is, when exploring cause areas, to just compile and repeat the 'basic facts' for the cause area, without actually trying to think about how this cause compares in rank order of importance to other causes.
Instead we'd like you to try and approach this track with a very strong prioritisation mindset. Try and actually think through whether a cause is more important than another. Think through whether the case for one cause means that you should prioritise another cause less.

How this track works

What it looks like for this track to go well

Program Plan

Session 1

1-1s

Sessions 2-5

Resources