| > Here's some examples of things I think are genuinely valuable and jobs I would do:
- Software for addiction treatment centers and rehabilitation Where's the money in that? San Francisco can't even scrounge enough funding and will to effectively treat its own addiction-afflicted citizens and homeless population, the local VCs are likely even less interested in that line of work. > - Bioinformatics and genomics for disease, especially making information accessible to regular people. Genomics for fitness/sports performance. 23AndMe, Verily, etc. are in this big industry. Of course, a considerable of this is going to lead to people's medical data being resold to Big Pharma, which is where the big monetization in. > - Software reform in partnership with state/governmental agencies for criminal justice They do exist, but again where is that funding coming from? > - Anything to do with LLVM. LLVM is fucking cool. Apple has that locked down, sure. > - GraalVM is fucking cool. That'd be Oracle's baby. > - Music software -- production (DAW's), plugins, education software to make music theory accessible That does exist, sure. > - Software to make learning programming accessible. Stuff like repl.it, Codesandbox, Scrimba Plenty of projects like that exist, sure. > That's really pessimistic and defeatist. Any industry with the amount of dumb money and hype as tech is going to lead to these emotional consequences. Ask yourself how much world-changing prosocial visions are on Wall Street, how many sunny optimistic dreams left unscathed by Hollywood. Silicon Valley is just another face of the bleeding edge of capital generation. |