Literally Impact

In 2023, I joined the company called Purple Ventures, a super app platform, the businesses covering from food delivery to online travel agency.

That’s where I met Donut, my chief data officer. He was the one who took me in as a data scientist. Even I didn’t hold a degree that related to data science field, only online courseworks.

One year after I joined, the company exited the market. That left me with three months to find a new opportunity.

A month later, I asked Donut about his situation. After he described his interview experiences, he mentioned the impact that he was craving for, and it seem to me that “impact” was a key factor guiding his decisions.

And from that conversation, the word “impact” had been impacted me since.

It made me reconsider everything I had worked on so far, the impact from 1 hour spent on developing AI seem to larger than sweeping my room.

Then, I realized I am assuming that some jobs have higher value than others, which in truth, all jobs have their unique values because the values aren’t directly convertible to money alone, but also in terms of the meaning. Meaning for the people who do them, and meaning for others who are benefited.