Want

Wants #

Some ideas for things I want. Ping me if you build them!

Tech talent clusterer #

Podcast of careers of midwest wealth #

  • Find names on tax records of fancy houses in midwest
  • Do podcast interviews of wealth generated outside of FAANG

Summaries of scientific fields for the laymen #

  • Big picture overview of a the field
  • Connect the dots between specialized papers and potential useful applications
  • Highlight most credible scientists and rising stars

AI to find similar ideas being explored independently in different fields #

In 1961, in his book Cybernetics, Norbert Wiener wrote:

[T]he most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man’s land between the various established fields. Since Leibniz there has perhaps been no man who has had a full command of all the intellectual activity of his day.

What if we had an AI that could assist humanity in finding these low hanging fruit ideas?

Ghost/Substack for textbooks #

  • Cohesive content, not disconnected posts
  • Email notifications of improvements (productize the errata!)
  • Precedent: Zero to One from Blake Masters notes, Tyler Cowen books synthesizing MR

Nausea free pregnancy #

  • Pill you can take to make morning sickness go away (assuming no value)
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