[anandpdoshi]

Plenty (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]

Why'd you leave--just curious?

[anandpdoshi]

I wanted to do more creative work, whereas the work at Plenty was more about problem solving.

[digitalmaster]

Oh interesting, I guess I've always thought about problem solving and creativity as being one and the same. Mind expanding on this a bit?

[anandpdoshi]

Ah 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]

Ah! Got it! That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for sharing!

[kyawzazaw]

Not 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)