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Good question. Big companies participate in incrementalism. Many companies invent one big thing and ride it for decades. Few build new things and succeed. (e.g. Apple). Some try, e…

A builder may use bricks to build a house - yet he may still be interested in the brick's composition & the brick making method. These days, he may even use a brick robot to automa…

The most notable theocracies - Iran and Saudi Arabia, do fairly well compared to the other two forms of government. I wonder why they're do better than one might expect.

Amazon Aurora seems to fit.

There are a number of open source projects looking for contributors. I know wesnoth.org is one. The downside of contributing to open source projects full time is you will have to f…

One example I can imagine you can help with: if your city doesn't have it, you could put its train timetables in an app. There's one for Sydney, it's called TripView. A train timet…

You might have seen aldjemy already but I thought I might mention it https://github.com/Deepwalker/aldjemy - let's us use SQLAlchemy queries in our django code without requiring re…

Do you have a personal website? Leave one here; Who knows maybe someone reading your post would hit you up in the next few weeks.

What about cashflows including goods or services?

You can get some working experience doing freelance gigs. You could probably find better ones than upwork.com, but otherwise, do some jobs there, do bigger and bigger ones, until y…

I think if you have a kid later on you'd worry less about growing old and more about making sure your kid grows old.

A modern day pyramid: monumental sacrifice and sights to behold.

I hope the "That this nation shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the state by the state for the state shall not perish from the Earth" (with "under God" struck…

That really sucks - being tired of people you don't know looking down on you. Let's take this further. Let's say there's a Googler looking down on you for not working in Google - t…

Ask for a copy printed on nice pretty paper and frame it.

A gift from your Ship’s captain - it won’t be of value to anyone else but has intrinsic value for you.

That's not what Toshiba pays - that's the salary headhunters use to take engineers away from Toshiba.

'Fahren Sie, fahren Sie, dann brauchen Sie keinen Treibstoff' (Drive, drive, then you do not need fuel) - Erwin Rommel

Take a read of Tao Te Ching. It's written 2500 years ago about spirituality. Find a translation you like. Don't read explanations of the poems - It's designed for you to find the m…

I'd prioritise "engage with your wife and kids" over hobbies - a lot of divorces happen when one partner feels they're doing all the work raising kids and feels the other partner i…