It's not, but that's an awesome coincidence. We're huge book lovers here at the company. In fact, we have an internal "4/4 only" list of books that folks contribute to. We have a copy of each 4/4 book in the office for people to borrow and read.
This was a variant of the question that I had when I left Stripe in 2019. After hearing someone say “We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.”, I became fixated on the question of what can I, with my software skillset, do to have a meaningful impact on climate?. The answer (in hindsight), is a ton.
My particular approach was to start a company (Watershed[0]), but today there are lots of great options as a software engineer. There are already plenty of great examples in the thread of places to look for companies (MyClimateJourney community, climate job boards, etc). I think the most important thing is not to feel like you need to learn a ton before jumping into the fray. Most engineers that joined us had zero climate experience beforehand. All you need is to be curious, be an effective engineer and you can learn what you need on the job.
My email is in my profile if you want to chat!
[0] We’re hiring (https://watershed.com/jobs)
and engineering is absolutely our rate limiter in helping companies decarbonize. We’ve built a climate platform that’s powering the climate programs of some of the world’s leading companies (Block, Shopify, Doordash as a few examples). Our goal is to be responsible for reducing the world’s yearly carbon emissions by 500 megatonnes of carbon by 2030 (1% of global emissions).
Watershed | Product Engineer, Designer | Onsite (Remote during shelter-in-place) | SF
Watershed is a software startup working to accelerate the fight against climate change. Businesses are a key actor in the transition to the zero-carbon economy and we give them the tools to execute on climate programs effectively. Our team worked on engineering & product at Stripe and Airtable and are now applying that experience to climate.
Watershed | Product Engineer, Designer & Business Generalist | Onsite (Remote during shelter-in-place) | SF
Watershed is a software startup working to accelerate the fight against climate change. Businesses are a key actor in the transition to the zero-carbon economy and we give them the tools to execute on climate programs effectively. Our team worked on engineering & product at Stripe and are now applying that experience to climate.
Watershed | Product Engineer, Designer & Business Generalist | Onsite (Remote during shelter-in-place) | SF
Watershed is a software startup working to accelerate the fight against climate change. Businesses are a key actor in the transition to the zero-carbon economy and we give them the tools to execute on climate programs effectively. Our team worked on engineering & product at Stripe and are now applying that experience to climate.