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But when you get down to the "How?" it quickly becomes apparent that the inertia is strong and the odds of success are extremely low.
Still, it's a fun daydream.
It does also mean I'll be doing much less frequent business with their store.
It's not hard to imagine that it's simply unequipped to know something like that, and it does seem fair to require that it become so equipped.
Huge supporter of autonomous cars, still feel like this is completely reasonable to require a solution for.
It does take time and active effort to become fully productive in a remote environment. It's not something you're just born knowing how to do, it's a set of skills just like working in an office is a set of skills. You have to learn them.
Yes, I do.
Also, I don't think the vast majority of office-based companies have any idea what their actual productivity levels are.
I admire the guy for having as much fun with his failures as his successes.
But I have worked for a previous manager again. He left the original company too, but set up contracting as an outside consultant to the software we built. He'd hire me to do some of the work as needed. Great gig for him, not bad for me.
That's not that rare of a setup if you're working on large B2B software packages.
Completely wore me out.
Arguing with people who provided what you asked for is a common but unproductive habit.
How much wealth was he gifted with? Order of magnitude would be a sufficient response.
We had a number of discussions about it, and found a potential route forward, but it was a very different business model from how he is making money now. In the end, he decided he didn't want to risk the money he's making now for a more uncertain path.
It was an extremely useful exercise, though, and a good way to understand what's out there and how it can be used. I think the version of web3 you mention is possible, but it's so different from how businesses operate now that it will take a very successful high profile company built from the ground up around web3 for the ideas to go anywhere. The risk just feels too high for existing companies, and even most new startups. You're turning over a lot of control and trying to succeed anyway.