> 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.
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.