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My Class And Goals - by Robin Hanson - Overcoming Bias

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I just went to my mom’s funeral, and so was reminded about my family, and of the question of what exactly one wants to do with one’s life.

I just went to my mom’s funeral, and so was reminded about my family, and of the question of what exactly one wants to do with one’s life. For money, my dad was a programmer, and my mom made presentation graphics for a finance firm. On the side they were missionaries, a pastor, and a writer. When she could retire from making money, my mom became a writer full-time, contributing to 30 of the 275 Chicken Soup books; ~20M people have probably read one of her essays there. My two bothers were most recently a court bailiff and a pool cleaner for money, and on the side a musician and pastor.…

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