What are you most interested in? I’m asking this because I think about PG’s essay on “How to do Great Work” at least once a week and until this point, I haven’t connected to the YC community. I’m curious to learn of some new things y’all studying, making, or are obsessively curious about. I’ll start: my main interests right now are online social networks. |
But I guess in reality I'm interested in technology that I can apply to my own life,m including stuff thats not thought of as "tech". One example would be culturing mushrooms. It is technology, but not the electronics/computers kind. But also things like Flir Lepton projects, long range wifi antenna designs, etc.
Also, I've been watching fringe science as a hobby for a while. I'm hopeful that the Barry-1 satellite[1] which is currently in orbit (and slowly falling towards earth), will soon turn on it's thruster (which is purely electric, no reaction mass/propellant) and shift itself into a 100 Km higher orbit using only solar power and broken laws of physics. I give it a 50/50 chance.
Lastly, I'm just trying to push, ever so persistently, the idea of capability based security into the world. It makes me so damned sad that we've had decades to fix computer security, and know exactly how to do it, but we keep just applying band-aids instead of fixing it. It's like if the power grid never adopted circuit breakers or fuses. - I give that a 5% chance of happening. 8(
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[1] https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/graph-orbit-data.php?CA...
(Note, this is a public source, not affiliated with the owners of the satellite in question, it's quite handy for other satellites as well)