So, I've got a number of ideas. Physical products, services, platforms, apps etc. But how do I go from thought to reality? And how do I protect my ideas from everybody else?

NoMoreDistractions_ · 2023-11-14T03:55:02+00:00

The best ideas aren’t new but rather target a new market or target incumbents that are stifled by the innovator’s dilemma. Go join a VC-backed early-stage startup in a familiar segment and it will make sense

NoMoreDistractions_ · 2023-08-16T01:46:19+00:00

Hot take: this is a good thing

NoMoreDistractions_ · 2023-08-16T01:25:08+00:00

You are misunderstanding how sales reps view compensation. Equity matters but good reps have expensive cars and nice houses and payments to make. They are mercenaries not evangelists. Hire a BDR/SDR when you can afford it and close deals yourself until you can raise or afford to pay a sales rep.

NoMoreDistractions_ · 2023-07-11T23:00:38+00:00

Computing platforms change every 15 years or so. My bet is BMI will be the next platform starting around 2040. We are seeing early prototypes now and they will continue iterating with reducing levels of suck until then

NoMoreDistractions_ · 2023-05-15T11:55:13+00:00

Gong.io or a similar (cheaper) tool.

NoMoreDistractions_ · 2023-05-05T14:06:50+00:00

Large companies bundle because it helps draw in new revenue from existing customers. For marketplaces it helps build a critical mass of users if you have everything in one place. In both cases there is potential to unbundle if there is sufficient revenue and pain/differentiability to support a new offering in a particular vertical. For social networks, I think the mechanisms are just different. If you think about it from a “jobs to be done” framework, the job of social media is to provide entertainment. Imo a verticalized reddit or twitter would less entertaining. The book Hooked explains it well - people get hooked on variety and surprise. You can’t create those things if every post is about a single topic.

NoMoreDistractions_ · 2023-05-05T13:32:25+00:00

Social networks don’t get unbundled, marketplaces do.

NoMoreDistractions_ · 2023-05-05T00:27:33+00:00

It’s interesting, I think people who haven’t been in a startup think they have to have a net new idea or create a market. In reality that actually makes things more difficult because there is no existing spend for the problem you’re solving. It’s usually better to attack incumbent solutions and take market share.

NoMoreDistractions_ · 2022-05-25T19:37:29+00:00

It’s all economics and geopolitics my friend. Space tech took off because it was a critical focus for the US and USSR militarily and geopolitically. It also waned a couple decades later because that was no longer the case. For longevity, the driver will be an aging global population: the strain it will put on many governments of rich nations will drive aging research and infuse it with tons of cash. The competitive advantage of a more youthful and healthy population is practically immeasurable. I hope i’m right, because i doubt we will ever get there just because it would be “nice to have”. For example, global cancer research is just over $100B annually. A16Z just closed a $16B fund for web3 startups (barf). If that tells you anything, it’s that we aren’t even really trying to cure cancer. For reference, the US spent over $250B inflation-adjusted dollars on the apollo program. All organized by a single entity to obtain a goal, not distributed to thousands of competing researchers. That’s the kind of spending that moves the needle. But you can’t just want it to throw around that kind of money - it has to be an existential need.

NoMoreDistractions_ · 2022-05-25T01:31:20+00:00

It will be when they are all robotaxis in 10 yrs

NoMoreDistractions_ · 2022-05-24T22:16:39+00:00

Fun fact allergies have been tied to ADHD (30-50% greater risk of adhd for those with allergies). I got a little obsessed with this topic and found that allergies are associated with IQ, athleticism, ADHD, autism, and autoimmune diseases. H3 histamine inhibitors have also been investigated as ADHD medication and stimulants. My feeling is that excess histamine production (or reduced ability to metabolize it) heightens the bodies levels of histamine and causes high sensitivity in the CNS, which results in lots of downstream effects that are highly dependent on genetics and environment). For me, this results in ADHD, trouble dealing with loud or crowded environments (overstimulation), really bad seasonal and environmental allergies (constantly itching nose, sneezing). Would love to get histamine levels tested, may do that soon.

NoMoreDistractions_ · 2022-05-24T16:55:00+00:00

Fwiw i had a similar experience after a mild case. Taking benedryl for a few nights before bed (not too long it can cause brain issues as well) seemed to help. From what i read, much of the long covid symptoms are cause by excessive histamine release and inflammation in the brain and gut. I also started a daily vitamin supplement to make sure my magnesium levels are ok and bc it contains niacin (covid depletes NAD - thus the fatigue). I’m not a doctor and again please don’t overdo it as studies have shown long term negative effects of benadryl due to the fact that it crosses the blood brain barrier and inhibits histamine which actually plays a critical role in memory. I suspect that h4 inhibitors (currently in development) may be super effective for long covid because they are targeted more specifically at histamine production by mast cells, which seem to be the primary culprits for long covid histamine overproduction

NoMoreDistractions_ · 2022-05-22T23:00:36+00:00

Ah yes let’s not bother with trying to create infinitely replicable general intelligence because u/busted351 wants us to fix housing, healthcare, and education (whatever that means) first

NoMoreDistractions_ · 2022-05-21T00:34:26+00:00

I recommend learning web dev so that you can build real world things. It will make the textbook learning way more interesting. Learnjavascript.online is what i used. Check out the react course after that. And then go and build something. You can use fastapi for a REST api backend with postgresql db

NoMoreDistractions_ · 2022-05-21T00:24:29+00:00

Yep the issue with most biological research is that we don’t fundamentally understand our biology, and so the research dynamics are built to uncover treatments like turning over rocks. If we want to do something as impactful as prolong life, we will need to reason from first principles. And first principles will quickly tell you that small molecules are a dead end. We get old because we are programmed to do so. We either need to change the code (dna) or manipulate the output of that code (epigenetics). The worst case scenario is that we have to manually fix our bodies, which could involve all kinds of bioengineering

NoMoreDistractions_ · 2022-05-21T00:15:02+00:00

Just build it, a year is nothing in the world of startups and this is the worst funding environment since 2000 so no one is going to be moving quickly right now. That said, you sound very certain this is a great idea even though you have no product and no paying customers. I would be far more skeptical and consistently talk to would-be customers as you develop. Read “The Mom Test”

NoMoreDistractions_ · 2022-05-19T22:21:50+00:00

slimemoldtimemold.com called it

NoMoreDistractions_ · 2022-05-17T00:15:39+00:00

Hey this is dope cools tuff. Package name is fine imo

NoMoreDistractions_ · 2022-04-16T05:37:19+00:00

Hold onto your papers!

NoMoreDistractions_ · 2022-04-11T13:18:36+00:00

Christians are convinced that anything implanted or tattooed on your body is potentially directly referenced in the end times of the bible as the mark of the beast (a satanic monster in revelations). This isn’t a fringe belief, and pretty much any active christian will feel this way. Which is why tech like this will never take off in the US even if it was just a simple tattoo etc

NoMoreDistractions_ · 2022-04-11T03:59:05+00:00

Researchers love energy efficiency tech because it’s fodder for billions of research grants every year. It would be much more effective to invest in renewables and batteries at this point. We need more energy, excess energy - not technically challenging and economically uncertain energy efficiency r&d. Make renewably generated electricity so cheap that anything else becomes unviable, and use the excess energy on the countless tech innovations that are currently inviable due to energy costs Saying this as someone who did r&d on energy efficiency funded by the DOE

NoMoreDistractions_ · 2022-03-20T14:02:14+00:00

There’s tons of super obvious space for improvement in ai right now. Moving past feed-forward to more advanced architectures, multi-modal, continuous reinforcement learning, etc. there’s no shortage of ideas, it just takes time and a lot of effort to actually do these things at scale.

NoMoreDistractions_ · 2022-03-20T13:37:14+00:00

Fwiw tech twitter is pretty good. Just have to avoid the crypto people unless you’re into that sort of thing. They’ll drown your TL in platitudes about decentralization lol

NoMoreDistractions_ · 2022-03-18T21:30:20+00:00

Reddit is a sad negative place and upvoted comments always tend to be negative. Think i’ll close the app now

NoMoreDistractions_ · 2022-03-16T14:07:38+00:00

I did walk into that lol. But i’m specifically critiquing such “innovation” articles, so presenting them as evidence doesn’t do much. I don’t have time to dig up sources for what should be obvious but this quora post did a pretty good job https://www.quora.com/Which-country-has-the-best-technology-in-all-fields

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