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I was curious what this was about and it is basically what it says on the tin: a tool to push people towards the effective altruism movement. It makes valid points and references interesting research, but I think it still requires the reader to question some of the conclusions and keep a little skeptic in order not to follow everything blindly. The last third of the book is the appendix.

If you’re young/early in your career, have your shit together but are really lost about what to do with your life and how to even start figuring that out, this can get you some some useful inspiration or cornerstones to navigate by.

It’s a light book describing scenes from Wau Holland’s life—not necessarily exactly word by word—which do a goob in painting a picture of what kind of person Wau was and how he lived his life (I did not know him so I can’t exactly tell, but it sounds pretty plausible). Definitely helps me understand the CCC and its history a bit better.

I got this one since I remember I liked the movie but don’t remember too much from it (I had to watch it in episodes since it requires attention over a long timespan). I didn’t think of maybe getting the original German language, which would be my native language as well. The translation shows how old the text is and it’s hard to stop myself from trying to translate into what I think the original text could have been in my head while reading it, feels like the translation is close to a word-by-word one. So yeah, this is gonna be exhausting as well, but I’m still gonna try and see how far I’ll make it :)