I worked as the technical half of in a sales organization selling a big data solution so I've caught a whiff of what the blog post is talking about. A handful o

I worked as the technical half of in a sales organization selling a big data solution so I've caught a whiff of what the blog post is talking about. A handful of organizations interested in/using our solution were doing, what I gather, meaningful work. A larger number - my guess, being an outsider and I could be totally wrong, but just based on signals I caught from the people at these organizations I was working with - were not. The ones which were not were those places where there's some sort of data arm or data scientist team with no clear mission and were more than willing to sink hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars into big data solutions on a short sales cycle. The industries where I felt that data was being used tended to have data as their core competency. The companies I worked with that were probably doing something useful were in the pharmaceutical, gaming, and data provider spaces. (Okay, so gaming space core competency is not big data, but their data team handled everything associated with microtransactions and other sales.) I also worked for a short time at a PAC-adjacent company working with voter and demographic data. Because that company's core competency was data, the work was meaningful - but it is extremely important that if you do that sort of work your politics match.