I relate with your sentiment. I'm from a product background, not a research one. What do you think is the best way to eventually transition into deep tech companies over the next five years?
By deep tech, I mean getting to solve complex challenges through technology. It could be solving problems using machine learning, or a hardware product that's genuinely useful. I believe we're going to see a rise in hardware technology soon. After being in the phase of building a product to get upvotes on ProductHunt, I was trying to capture the essence of being an inventor by following a prescribed recipe, which wasn't satisfying. I ended up moving to a more business role and it's much better this way but we're barely building anything.
I'd like to play a role of an inventor and a builder of crazy technologies. Imagine https://www.noya.co/ or https://frame.work/. My only concern is that not being from a research background or a first world country could hinder my chance of doing that. Hope that made sense.
Yeah, that makes sense. I think the best way to do that is just to invent stuff. I've followed a similar-ish track in the past, and I can promise you that nothing upskills you more than actually building things.