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• Overview with lots of plugs to deep-tech: https://foresight.org
• Casey Handmer is doing cool things with Terraform: https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com https://terraformindustries.wordpress.com
• Third Law building atomically precise catalysts: https://thirdlawtx.com
• HOC doing whatever this is: https://higherorderco.com
> Feel free to check: Predictions here.
[0] https://theeggandtherock.com/p/predictions-what-the-james-we...
[1] https://blogs.hn
Please add your site or make corrections :)
Any suggestions for stuff I can put in the probability rows?
Building infrastructure to recover $1T worth of materials landfilled globally. Platform enables brands to recover materials directly from customers. Backed by Kindred Ventures (Coinbase, Perplexity) and Floodgate.
We're looking for:
• Solid programmer (React, React Native)
• Product/graphic design skills (Figma)
• Focus on accessibility and UX
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taylor@replenysh.com
• What can I be doing differently?
• What's holding me back?
• What should I spend less time on?
• If you were me, what would you change?
• Where should I focus next?
• What can everybody see that I can't? What's taped to my back?
What an amazing experience! It's so hard to listen to criticism without defense. It's even harder to find actionable next steps once problems have been identified! I think I've been more interested in actionable feedback lately, but I guess not all good feedback is necessarily actionable
I've been feeling similarly haunted by projects, which I now call a "one man war of attrition":
[1] https://taylor.town/attrition
It's a weird spot, because you need enough discipline to convince yourself to expend more effort than watching Netflix, but also not stress yourself out.
As a concept, "building in public" has been not great for convincing myself to do more.
I think TodePond's "slippy mindset" might be more useful for these situations:
Private buildings are typically beholden to fire codes, because fire spreads and inflicts nonlinear damage.
Fire departments respond to fire emergencies. They use incident stats to prevent future fires.
Likewise, bad drivers/infrastructure wreak nonlinear harm.
But traffic departments are disconnected from the feedback loop. Police departments carry entirely different goals/incentives that don't seem to align with traffic safety.
[1] hello@taylor.town
Unison seems cool! I met some Unison folks a few years back and our visions didn't have much overlap. Nice people, but their fundamental design decisions with hashes/effects/etc are incompatible with the web I'm trying to build.
You may enjoy his recent interview on Patio11's podcast:
[1] https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/solar-economi...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUI891ejeYc
The magnitude of the Gremlins bait-and-switch still baffles me. They marketed it as a family/kids' film; it was a horror/comedy for adults. How did the studio think that was going to play out?
Anyway, unless you've seen the film or heard people like us rant about it, it's a pretty easy mistake to make.