> I'll never start a company that sends a man to Mars or discovers the cure to a horrifying disease.
Maybe not, but you can work at one: https://jobs.counsyl.com
I work at counsyl and we're hiring generalist programmers, devops, etc.
Maybe not, but you can work at one: https://jobs.counsyl.com
I work at counsyl and we're hiring generalist programmers, devops, etc.
How am I changing the world? A) By educating a future generation (my own children) in the ways of the world, by supporting their dreams and showing them how the world must function so they can realize their dreams; and B) by working for a company that provides services to its customers to use to make their employees more productive to grease the wheels of innovation and creativity so their own lives are enriched and their own dreams (and their children's dreams) can be realized.
I met some Counsyl devs at PyCon last year, they were wonderful. We talked about meaningful work.
There are so many companies and nonprofits trying to change the world. They need help with software. A partial list:
Broad Institute: http://www.broadinstitute.org (disclaimer, I work there)
JCVI: http://www.jcvi.org
Sanger: http://www.sanger.ac.uk
23andme: https://www.23andme.com
Whatever anyone thinks of the periodic surfacing of the feeling that Raganwald was expressing, the fact that it does come up with a degree of regularity indicates there's an unfulfilled need here.
What can be done to help people fill it?
It seems one thing that factors in is that people feel helpless to get started on the path to working on "big problems". What can be done to make it not feel so overwhelming? What can help us all find our way to approaching these questions and actively searching for solutions?