Wants #
Some ideas for things I want. Ping me if you build them!
Tech talent clusterer #
- Try to get critical mass of talent in alternate geo
- Mockup by @BrennerSpear might be inspiration
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)