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Genius occurs when someone wants to communicate, and they find their medium to do so. Life in a sense, is the pursuit of finding the right instrument to express yourself. Gates found the PC. Mozart the piano.
What will you find?
Humans like making predictions. The problem is that we’re not very good at them.
Part of the reason is data. We can’t measure everything that matters. Part of it is weighting. We don’t know what matters most. Part of it is hubris. We’re not as smart as we think we are. Some of it could be timing. You can be right, but that doesn’t matter if you’re too early (or too late).
What would unemployment look like?
What would the pandemic look like?
What would the world look like?
There’s no better time to ask this question.
The world was needlessly unprepared for a pandemic, and now we’re paying the consequences. This is America’s wake-up call, and now, more than ever, we must rise to the occasion.
The gap between simulation & reality is shrinking. We capture the world in increasing resolution, and we replicate the world with similar clarity. The middle compute layer — metasynthesis — will unlock countless opportunities.
What would unemployment look like?
What would the pandemic look like?
What would the world look like?
There’s no better time to ask this question.
The world was needlessly unprepared for a pandemic, and now we’re paying the consequences. This is America’s wake-up call, and now, more than ever, we must rise to the occasion.
Software ate (most of) the world.
All the low hanging fruit was eaten, and now it's ready for the rest of the meal: Healthcare, Education, & Fintech
But first, we need to grapple w/ software's externalities.
