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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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Inheriting Struggling Projects

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In 2019, the country of Turkey took delivery of S-400 air-defense systems from Russia. The US government then took long-threatened action and forced Turkey off the F-35 fighter jet program. The six F-35s that Turkey had received were impounded in the US (there for training) and Turkey was banned from manufacturing F-35 components .  Enter me.
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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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