How to save 10 lives by age 20
5-week online programme exploring how you could actually save 10 lives or more. You’ll consider whether to aim for this goal or something even more ambitious, then make an action plan to achieve that.
You’re in! First step to helping others
Next step: getting connected
Getting the ball rolling on helping others
The tl;dr on interacting with other Leaf participants
Weekly structure
Advice on engaging with our content
Intro call recording
How Svetha saves: nonprofit entrepreneurship
Lobbying against Lead
Leaping over LEEP or starting the new New Incentives
Quiz qu (Leaping over LEEP or starting the new New Incentives)
Is this realistic?
…a guessing game
Charity is not…
…that cheap
Directly doing vs donating
Donation downsides
Donation upsides
Getting others to do the (donating) dirty work
Research with real impacts
Exploring research questions
Saving lives through system and social change
Cards on the table
Discovering your potential
You won’t save lives if you don’t choose carefully
Not “top” but still great
Getting quality AND quantity
A simple trick to save 10x more lives
It’s not just the economy
It’s not just donations
It’s not just health
It’s not just health (activity)
How does this compare to doctors?
Further exploration
Saving lives through pandemic prevention
Saving lives through pandemic prevention (Activity)
High risk, high reward: altruistic bets
Other opportunities to help evade extinction
Evading extinction — expected value
The missing multiplier
Forgotten future generations
Forgotten future generations (Activity)
Aiming for a lasting legacy
Neglected nonhumans
Why worry about nonhumans?
Why worry about nonhumans? (Activity)
What’s good, homie?
REEFS (FREES?) cranked up a gear
Projects tackling pressing problems
Volunteering that really matters
Further exploration
Tough choices in warzones and disasters
Tough choices every second of every day
Opportunities and choices
Bigger switches, bigger victories
A framework for prioritising pressing problems
Framework quiz
Exploring landmark numbers on problem size
Shocking neglect
Putting the framework into practice
Keep digging
What did you think?
Further exploration
Optimising for lifetime impact, not immediate impact
Saving lives sustainably
Starting sustainable habits
How to achieve more (later)
How to achieve more (later) (Activity)
Investing to give
Investing in understanding
Investing in understanding (Activity)
Investing in community
Developing specialist career capital
Developing specialist career capital (Activity)
Choosing a degree that helps you save lives
Considering relevant degrees
What's relevant for you?
Downrating, not deleting, degree options
Rules of thumb for picking degrees with the best career capital
6 criteria for choosing a degree
6 steps to save lives later
Further exploration
Clarifying what you want, so you can actually get it
Setting ambitious but realistic goals
How ambitious? How realistic?
When? Where? How?
Why, why, why, why, why?
Saving, supporting, or something else?
If not, then what? Pulling it all together
If not, then what? Pulling it all together (Activity)
What specific actions will you take?
What’s your top priority?
When will you do what?
Who will hold you to account?
Why did the patient die? How can you prevent it happening?
Making the most of this week’s discussion call
Congratulations!
Further exploration