This really isn't a traditional product "idea"; to be frank, it's somewhat personal, but I did my best to generalize. I've found that trying to validate ideas is abysmal, only you can answer the hard questions, the ones that make or break an idea. I find it useful just to get to the heart of the problem through platonic like discussion, the trouble is that isn't always convenient. More times than not, that leads to a truly good idea that had nothing to do with the original one. So here's the biggest problem I see this industry has, and it's "one" going ignored.

I have tons of ideas these days. Perhaps, that's the problem because the more I think about it, the less I feel like my heart still has it in me to do another project. There's a dark shadow growing over this industry, "one" no one sees because we've become dark in heart along with it, and its really a spiritual war at this point.

Day after day I read stories, mine included, programmers burned out, suicidal, and broken who want out--whom have no intention on returning. This sickness can't be resolved entirely just by learning to take your profession and work impersonally, or job hopping to another one, and just doing what most others do, which is do your time, clock in and clock out, and go home and escape from reality by driving drunk into the solace of the mass distraction machines like netflix. That sounds more like an internment camp with extra steps.

This is a moral dilemma the world over is suffering, sitting in a sort of loud silence. "One" that fully developed nations are now just starting to confront, as our economy reaches its latest stage. Can software really solve this problem or is it just part of the problem? Where has political reformation gotten us? We as humans, not "one" nation, are divided more than ever.

Part of me feels like the solution, if one exists, will certainly involve software, god knows I've tried, for years now, to think of how that would play out. I feel like the answer always results in what I call the "shadow" economy, the one that will rise from the ashes of the reputation economy, one that can end well or poorly for the future.

It's not just crypto currencies as one would be lead to think, it's just one measure that will be necessary. Frankly, it should only take a radically small fraction of the time to develop and ship software than it does now, but only because so much in this world is broken by design, not just software.

This is truly the greatest existential risk I see other than ML and the two are intimately connected, but the solution lies more in a new protocol, one, if you read about it, would sound more like science fiction than reality, and may require rethinking what language can be. But like all good protocols, it will need to be an intentionally "dumb" one. "One" is a misnomer because it would really be billions of small ones, but harkens back to the words of Alan Kay at the dawn of the web and before him perhaps Claude Shannon. But again, I would really rather discuss the problem than the solution.

Maybe this is a man's world after all, I would really love to hear what a woman has to say for once, they are the true "fixers", not just "makers".