There is something fascinating and magical to me about a multi millionaire starting a startup in a seemingly mundane field. No space stuff. No let's stop aging. A time saving app. Cool.
Depending on what these productivity apps do, the impact could potentially be large. Trying to minimize the work (which I don't think anyone knows what it will be yet) as just "a time saving app" is pretty dismissive. I use a tool called Clockwise to reschedule my 1:1s ever week in Google Calendar. As a manager that lives and dies by my calendar, having a tool that automatically does this for me without having to play meeting time and room roulette is such a huge time and mental burden off of my chest. It allows me to use that valuable time and mental cycles on important things like working on a new initiative or helping a team member with their career development. Take that and multiply it by tens of millions of people and you have real, meaningful impact.
I was under the impression that several billionaires are in the business of solving aging (Larry Page comes to mind), but I could be wrong.
> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
We live in a boring dystopia.