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This is me! I’m semi-normie (MechEng with a bit of Matlab now working as a ceo). I spend most of my day in Claude code but outputs are word docs, presentations, excel sheets, resea…

Loved this! A bit deep to put district and circle as options on the same question. Don’t they use the same rolling stock and cover very similar stations? I found Bakerloo was the e…

> For women, answering the questions is voluntary, as they cannot be required to perform military service under the Constitution. Specially article 12a Paragraph 4: https://www.ges…

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” Douglas Adams

The next frontier: Draw a pelican on a bicycle ergonomically designed for pelicans.

It's not ideal, but you can look at the bottom bar and get a sense of density of innovation over a certain time period.

It’s a great project! I’ve got some experience with small batch production and I’ve written an email. Check your spam!

The UK is actually doing something(ish) about it now. Innovate UK (the UK’s public innovation funding) recently had a bid out for maritime R&D but with a focus on clean tech: https…

Solar Aid who wrote this report have an app called SunnyMoney which has repair guides. Don’t know about uptake: https://solar-aid.org/news/repair-app/

Note that mobile phone repair is the no. 1 service provided by repair shops in rural areas of many countries in Africa. Like 50%+ of all repairs are mobile phone repairs

That’s the premium solution that some, but not most, can afford and only makes sense if the cost of repair is less than the cost a new unit. Travel just makes that tip in favour of…

Cheap crap = lasts only as long as the warranty period. I did a survey in partnership with a the African Leadership University in a Rwanda, where we surveyed people living in two r…

Yeah not much has changed, it’s simple technology that was developed in 2005. Main innovations of the PAYGO model in recent times was the ability to use the payment data you collec…

For sure recycling is improving. That’s different from repair though. The current cycle is 1. sell product 2. wait three years for it to break 3. Go back to 1. The impact of the re…

I didn’t say, nor do I assume, people are inept at repairs. I said that the communities that are being targeted with off-grid solar don’t currently have the skills or infrastructur…

Those who are talking about market opportunities, yes it’s big! Bottom up calculation: average $10/repair x 250 million potential repairs = $2.5B market. Problem is labour shortage…

The repair service is really expensive for subtle reasons. First of all there is the repair itself, but there isn’t any collection service so you need to travel (often a full day) …

We are teaching people how to fix them so that the income stays within those communities. You can see a bit our latest work here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/energy-makers-acade…

This revolution also has a dark side: People are paying off these devices and then once they have paid them off, they break and people in these areas don’t have the skills or resou…

High recommended book which looks at the histroy of ideas, which gives you a good idea of what people thought of themselves through history: Ideas: A History of Thought and Inventi…