Gitcoin have a hackathon challenge to “Propose a radical markets idea to be used on gitcoin” that will increase the financial flow and contributions in open source projects. Not restricting myself to the radical markets constraint, I spent some hours thinking about the challenge and failed to see how the current system of open source has much chance of moving towards the type of market Gitcoin imagine.
The navy released videos of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and Edward Witten (I admit I hadn’t heard of him) published Searching for a Black Hole in the Outer Solar System. Exciting!
Why is our society unable to solve problems which appear to have easy solutions? Because of our systems. How can you think about these systems and their insane offspring? How can you see when you can beat these systems? How could these infuriating systems be improved?
I think we should be able to estimate how long it will take us to build something and to build it quickly. Patrick Collison has a list of examples showing what people can do. Of course there must be cases where our estimates are bad and projects overrun, yet it seems strange that we expect not only slow projects, but slow projects that also overrun the estimation.
I’d like to invest some of my money into producing more green energy while also having the possibility of earning some interest for retired me.