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Ideal Jobs and Superpowers

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As I've been looking for my next role, I've had to think about what my "ideal job" might look like. I've also had to think about what my "superpower" is: what I uniquely bring to a hiring organization. I don't know that I have a complete answer, but I reached a few conclusions recently. My ideal job is to take on a broken-but-fixable organization and bring it to where it doesn't need heroism to survive day-to-day. My superpower is to create the organizational bandwidth to make that happen.
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Decentralized Solar

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A few years ago, solar seemed like a small slice of future electricity generation: it was expensive, took up a lot of space, and was intermittent. Recently, the plummeting cost and increasing efficiency of solar panels has combined with a similar revolution in lithium-ion batteries has transformed solar into a huge part of the future mix. What's particularly wild about it is the potential for decentralization where individuals and isolated areas can push the changes forward themselves.
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Poverty Line Greatly Underestimated?

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The official poverty line in the United States is $32,150 / year for a family of four , maybe that threshold should be higher:   $140,000 ! When the line was set in 1963, food made up 1/3 of the average family's budget, so taking a minimal grocery list and tripling it was a reasonable calculation because food prices were far easier to track than e.g. housing prices. But in 2024, food only makes up 5%-7% of the average family's budget! Tripling the food budget to reach a minimum income no longer corresponds with "people above this line are not in crisis."
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