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Plenty (https://plenty.ag https://plenty.ag) is trying to scale hydroponics using plant science and automation. (I worked here till a few months ago.) Indoor ag
by anandpdoshi 6y ago
Plenty (https://plenty.ag https://plenty.ag) is trying to scale hydroponics using plant science and automation. (I worked here till a few months ago.) Indoor agriculture is going to supplement our nutrition needs in the future. Plenty is focusing on flavor as its selling point, and after eating Plenty produce, everything else seems like eating cardboard.
- kickout 6y agoWhy'd you leave--just curious?
- anandpdoshi 6y agoI wanted to do more creative work, whereas the work at Plenty was more about problem solving.
- digitalmaster 6y agoOh interesting, I guess I've always thought about problem solving and creativity as being one and the same. Mind expanding on this a bit?
- kyawzazaw 6y agoNot OP but I feel like I can an example here. The workplace I am at solves a very prevalent set of problems For retail industry. But there is nothing creative about it. (Of course, there are some creative workarounds but it wouldn’t be characterized as creative work)
- anandpdoshi 6y agoAh I should have been more specific. For some context, I learned software development on the job and later studied Human-Computer Interaction. I want to be at the intersection of software and design. Software Engineering at Plenty involved a lot of creative problem solving. But I wanted to work on visually creative projects. Some of my initial projects at Plenty did involve interactive UIs, but as I gained better understanding of our stack, I was required to do a lot more back-end work which wasn’t very exciting to me.
- digitalmaster 6y agoAh! Got it! That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for sharing!