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If you have an interesting idea, then write—Write for yourself, to yourself.
And when you’re ready, create a prototype or mock-up.
Without more information, simple is best.
On the flip side, tech people tend to place importance on using technology to solve problems that did not even exist a few years ago. Think most SaaS startups.
Whereas, I’ve now realized, many of the problems most worth solving, also affected people 500 years ago. There is a lot of noise today in our information society, but the persistence of those problems is true signal.
So if you want to work on an idea that may stand the test of time, perhaps start looking at the problems that withstood the test of time. These are also hard problems that will be very humbling.
The closest thing to innovation I do is scope expansion. I like to take things that exist, and look for overlaps. If 2 products are 99% the same, even if they conceptually have totally different purposes, that's an opportunity to apply the DRY principle I also enjoy sci-fi shows and often think "Ok that should really exist by now". Sometimes you see something that really is possible with current tech, but it's mostly…
>consumer level raman spectrometer so you can distinguish between genuine Maruchan and knock-off brands?