Many high-impact careers, especially in fields like effective altruism, involve unconventional work patterns and responsibilities that even insiders struggle to understand. This creates three key problems: potential entrants can't visualize these roles, inspiring examples remain scarce, and the community misses chances to replicate successful approaches. A possible solution could be creating detailed "day in the life" profiles of people in these unusual positions.

What These Profiles Could Include

Each profile might break down into several key components:

• An hour-by-hour timeline of a typical workday
• The specific tools and systems the person uses
• Reflections on what makes their role both unusual and effective
• Their career path story with advice for others

This approach could help early-career professionals considering unconventional paths, mid-career individuals seeking greater impact, and organizations designing better roles. The people being profiled might participate to attract collaborators or promote their causes, while readers could gain practical insights for their own career decisions.

How This Could Be Implemented

One way to execute this could involve starting small with 3-5 written profiles in a simple blog format, then expanding to include multimedia elements and eventually interactive tools. The project might differentiate itself from existing career resources by focusing specifically on the nitty-gritty details of unconventional roles rather than big-picture overviews.

To ensure the profiles remain useful, they could include reality checks about context-dependent factors and emphasize transferable lessons over direct replication. Success might be measured through reader surveys tracking whether the profiles actually influenced career decisions.