# Career Inspiration ## Key Themes * **Spend tons of time thinking about : What is the next thing I should work on?** * In a conversation with David Perrell, Sam Altman says: "This high order bit to think about is: What is the next thing I should work on?" ## Inspiration When thinking about where I would like to take my career, this is a list of people, ideas, and paths that I found interesting: - [https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/P3Yt66Wh5g7SbkKuT/how-to-get-into-independent-research-on-alignment-agency](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/P3Yt66Wh5g7SbkKuT/how-to-get-into-independent-research-on-alignment-agency) - Neel Nanda independent research - Look into big tech company jobs - Look into startup roles in Boulder - David Perell - Eli Tyre - --- Date: 20241007 Links to: Tags: References: * []()