‍Welcome back, Shit Givers.

Update: I’m unexpectedly dragging my family across the country yesterday/today/tomorrow/forever, so this week’s issue is very brief.

Last week’s most popular Action Step was sharing The Conversation, an essential resource for Black and Latinx health care workers to provide facts and dispel misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines.

Have an Action Step to recommend? Send it to questions@importantnotimportant.com, and we’ll put it through our vetting process!

Things to read:

1. Ed Yong is back with a new piece for The Atlantic. Where we are with Delta, what’s next, and how we get out of it. Must read.
2. It’s back to school time, which means 50 million kids under 12 are headed back into classrooms while Delta rages. Here’s a brief piece on the timeline for getting kids under 12 vaccinated.
3. Are we entering the era of open-source intelligence? Information (like satellite data) has become so much cheaper. What can we fix with it?
4. The asteroid Bennu, the size of the Empire State Building, has a very (very) very small chance of hitting Earth on September 24, 2182. Listen to our delightful convo with Dr. KT Ramesh on what we can and can’t do to prevent going the way of the T. rex.

Tool of the week:

1. An IPCC interactive atlas that helps governments model future climate impacts

Action Step of the week:

• Call 4 Climate. The infrastructure + reconciliation bills (which Nancy Pelosi, among others, insists are linked, ride or die) are our last shot at government-level climate action for...a while. Let’s just say a while.

Job of the Week

Help beat addiction

Senior Software Engineer, Eleanor Health (Remote)

Saying America’s got an addiction problem would be a bit of an understatement.

Eleanor Health is focused on delivering whole-person, comprehensive care to transform the quality, delivery, and accessibility of care for people affected by addiction.

Join and collaborate with a growing team to build and maintain HIPAA-compliant and incredible value tech. Apply here.

Important Jobs

Every week, we share Featured roles from Important Jobs right here in the newsletter.

Hiring and want to get your open role in front of our community? Submit a Featured role for free here.

• Product Designer, LeanTaaS (Remote)
• Software Engineer, Hardware Systems, Kairos Aerospace (Mountain View)
• Senior Software Engineer, Eleanor Health (Remote)
• Scientist, Cell-Free Applications, LanzaTech (Illinois)
• Controller, C16 Biosciences (New York)
• Policy Lead, Evergreen Action (Remote)

Browse more open roles, or list your own for free at ImportantJobs.com.

Thanks for reading, and thanks for giving a shit. Have a great weekend.

-- Quinn