This post is about HOW/WHY we develop our VENTURES list … our point with these MVP Ventures is not really to develop the next billion-dollar unicorn … it’s not even really to develop a venture with a million-dollar valuation … our aims are much more modest – we simple register domain names and then develop those virtual properties [somewhat similar to how individual athletes/musiscians develop their NIL properties] by adding the general framework of a business plan with monetization ideas and technologies that might become part of million-dollar enterprise or perhaps even a unicorn, if the concept sorta wins the lottery.

A Deep Dive Into The Success Of Unicorn Startups

Sources / General Background Reading; Skim These First As Preparation For The Deep Dive

(1) Building a unicorn startup: key characteristics and strategies - The Thrive. (2) Unicorn Startup Checklist for 2024 | Embroker. (3) How to build a unicorn startup in 2023? - Tactyqal (4) Unicorn Company Status: What It Means & How to Invest | Britannica Money. (5) Anduril: Shaping the Future of Defense With Advanced Technology (6) Anduril Success Story: Transforming US & allied military capabilities (7) How Defense Tech Company Anduril Rapidly Grew Their Business (8) Palantir Technologies - Wikipedia (9) Palantir’s pioneering path: The future of data analytics - Entrepreneur. (10) The Palantir Pack: Startups founded by Palantir alumni - Protocol (11) Why Palantir Is the Health Tech Startup You’ve Never Heard Of - Medium (12) What companies can learn from unicorn startups to overcome the COVID-19 crisis (13) UNICORN START-UPS AND THEIR JOURNEY: A CASE STUDY OF TWO INDIAN STARTUPS SWIGGY AND PAYTM - IJCRT (14) Unicorn Startups – The 33 Remarkable Companies - Entrepreneurship Drive (15) The Rise of Unicorn Companies: A Magical Growth? (16) Analysis of Unicorn Startups - AIRBNB and BYJU’s - Academia.edu

Introduction to Unicorn Startups**

  • Definition and characteristics of Unicorn startups[^10^]¹¹¹³
  • The concept of disruptive innovation¹²
  • The role of technology and asset-light business models¹²

Case Studies of Successful Unicorn Startups**

  • Case Study 1: Anduril
    • Founding and early years¹⁴¹⁶
    • Key products and services¹⁴¹⁵
    • Growth and funding¹⁴¹⁵
  • Case Study 2: Palantir
    • Founding and early years²
    • Key products and services²
    • Growth and funding¹²
  • Case Study 3: Airnb
    • Founding and early years²
    • Key products and services²
    • Growth and funding¹²

Top 10 Unicorn Companies In India 2022

  1. InMobi
  2. Flipkart
  3. BharatPe
  4. Dream11
  5. PhonePe
  6. BYJU’S
  7. Ola
  8. Ola Rooms
  9. Zomato
  10. Swiggy

Common Traits of Successful Unicorn Startups**

  • Solving real problems¹³
  • Strong team with diverse skills and experiences¹³
  • High growth potential[^10^]
  • Innovative ideas[^10^]
  • Entrepreneurial spirit[^10^]
  • Risk-taking and resilience[^10^]
  • Continuous improvement[^10^]

Strategies for Building a Unicorn Startup

  • Developing a minimum viable product (MVP)¹¹
  • Identifying user problems and proposing solutions¹¹
  • Discovering a large, homogenous potential target market¹¹
  • Creating a product that’s accessible, user-friendly, and cost-effective¹¹
  • Determining your business model¹¹

The Future of Unicorn Startups

  • The role of AI and data analytics in the future of Unicorn startups¹
  • The impact of Unicorn startups on the economy and society¹

We develop VENTURES in order to INVEST in human productivity.

That’s the WHY of it. That’s the core theme in everything we tinker with.

Investing drives the SUSTAINABILITY of VENTURE PHILANTHROPY. Actually having skin in the game helps to SUSTAINABLY advance human productivity by building more the things that most efficiently, most rapidly advance creative, productive workflows.***

VENTURES are HOW we LEARN about what actually EFFICIENTLY, RAPIDLY advances productivity?

That’s the HOW of it.

We have learned what does not work at all … we see all kinds of examples of laughable failure around us in the world. You simply CANNOT learn about productivity by being a practicioner of victimthink who indulges in conspiracy theories … you cannot be a hate-filled jerk … you cannot possibly learn about productivity by trusting the experts who are even stupider than teachers who cannot do, so must teach … you certainly deserve to fail miserably and have all of your capital taken from you if you are the kind of lazy thinker who believes in the magic of the Next Big Thing or NBT [which is usually designated as the NBT by experts and conventional wisdom.]

You cannot just trendspot … you have to dig in, roll up your sleeves, get frustrated by not being able to figure out how something works in order to finally really UNDERSTAND the mechanics of WHY/HOW … with dirty hands, skinned knuckles and all kinds of frustration and failure analysis, you can FINALLY understand the why/how [and the why not/how not to do it] of why and how something will improve the productivity of masses of humans.

You cannot just trendspot without the frustration of being in the mix … you actually have to learn things the hard way and get your hands dirty … to learn things the hard way, you have to BUILD AN ALMOST WORKING PROTOTYPE OF SOMETHING FOR ALMOST NO COST.

YOU can ONLY really LEARN BY DOING SOMETHING … do VENTURES is mostly about failing and being frustrated enough by the whole process to think you wanna quit … but it is not about being a spectator or a tourist or a trendspotter … it’s about being a participant in the process of learning about what actually advances human productivity.

You can get lots of hints by READING [about what other people have done; about what works, what does not work YET]… and getting better at reading more, faster, better … but if you want to LEARN, you have to DO … you sorta have to DO things that you totally suck at to learning anything new … you DO things that you are pretty good at to find ways to get better … and you build new proto-VENTURES to find out who is really doing this so well, that you want to invest in them getting even better. The only hints in investment come from your own proficiency in building the minimal viable prototypes of the VENTURE that you believe might make people more productive … you will FAIL in the building of these proto-ventures, so you want to preserve your capital … and learn from other people’s failures.

Other people’s FAILURES are gigantic hints … for example, NOBODY who thinks that vehicle technologies will make humans more productive really understands the productivity of human thought … you cannot get thoughts, information, knowledge shipped fast enough by car, by plane, by spaceship. The productivity of human thought is all about the speed of useful INFORMATION application and the acceleration of the growth of KNOWLEDGE for better resource allocation … the biggest gains in productivity will not come from transport, although we might need to apply knowledge engineering and information technology to car companies, we don’t want to invest in just another car company, ie we want to invest in the company that selling the car company the AI, information technology and knowledge engineering because the topline growth in vehicle miles travelled per citizens per year in developed nations peaked fifteen years ago.

Our investment theme for the past fifteen years has been PRIMARILY only about investing in our own health … that’s because we were told that we were going to die in hours/days but not months AND if we somehow did recover, we would soon relapse and then at that point we would die in hours/days but not months. So OUR FOCUS has been on understanding our own existence and what we needed to do to be as healthy as possible WITHOUT THE ASSISTANCE OF THE EXPERTS WHO COULD NOT HELP US because they would fail us again.

GENUINE care for HEALTH, not healthcare or health insurance … and FITNESS, not fitness equipment or fitness centers … as well as the exsistential creativity of asynchronous workflow for teams of creative human beings … is the PRIMARY focus of our investment strategy.

As we have regained our health … we have begun to think about the kinds of VENTURES that we can build to help others … we have re-strategized how we think about venture philanthropy and the entire topic of how humans go about creating wealth and generally improving the human condition … KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING is not something that one individual or one company can accomplish … we can only accomplish COMPETITIVELY … through globally competitive workflows … ideally, globally competitive workflows do not deteriorate in to wars … but unfortunately WAR has been the driver of better technologies that have generally lifted humans out of the drudgery of low-productivity subsistence and just barely getting by. In the LARGER realm of human advance, it’s all about the productivity of MASSES of humans … but YOUR existence is something that YOU cannot trust to experts, stupid!

If we care about other humans … we have to find the best ventures to develop and invest in … but we need to understand why COMFORT is an impediment to developing and investing in those ventures.

INTELLIGENCE … and intelligent thinking

Our investment strategy is based on finding those companies that make others radically more productive.

It’s about actually USING the technology … not just reading, but writing code, understanding ideas/mechanisms of ideas … in order studying the acceleration of productivity in workflows … understand the kinds of systems that make systems more productive demands learning the fundamentals of the fundamentals the HARD WAY and building up the systems in order to understand how/why certain companies have developed a culture or workflow that will give them the inside edge for the next five or ten years.

We don’t pick stocks … we pick reading themes or intelligence gathering themes for the kinds of things that we think demand more READING, REFLECTION and INTELLIGENT DEBATE.

We advocate that people do more than just read, they should, for example, work at learning the basics of the basics of cognitive science, knowledge representation and reasoning, linguistics and the applied learning of language, computational semiotics, how natural language processing is implemented in code, how large language model platforms are used to learn about and extend open source LLM technologies in order to understand from a fundamentals level what things like deep learning or artificial intelligence are all about.

Stock tips are FOR IDIOTS

If you want to understand investment themes … you HAVE TO spend time getting your hands dirty with the fundamentals of the technologies that are driving the future of making people radically more productive.

It is STUPID to invest in stupid shit because somebody says that it’s going to be the next big thing … and you have to UNDERSTAND ENOUGH of what about that idea will make people more productive … and you have to understand why somebody has not already implemented it … AND YOU CANNOT BE THE KIND OF MORON THAT SWALLOWS CONSPIRACY THEORY IDIOT THINK about dark kabals or aliens or secret commissions that rule the world.

There is NO SUBSTITUTE FOR UNDERSTANDING EXACTLY HOW THE PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVMENT HAPPENS.

We develop the precursors of VENTURES in order to learn about industries

Learning something the hard way is about REALLY, ACTUALLY, TRULY going through the process of doing it … and that means doing it as inexpensively as possible … the MVP principle is applied to investement research … what is MINIMAL VIABLE PROTOTYPE that can possibly work well enough to maybe work … as we START UP a venture and think about competing in an industry, we will understand who the best competitors in that industry are … or else, we have a startup that we should actually start the eff up.

FUTURE Topic Lists [otherwise known as rabbitholes]

NOTE: This LIST is NOT EarlyMedical reading stuff … that’s above this in our Four Horsemen of Longevity™ … atherosclerosis leading to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, and metabolic disease … this is a place for putting all of those things that cross our mind … and things that we might go back to later.

Our aim with this FUTURE TOPICS listing* is to have a GOTO lists for any downtime, or morning-before-we-wakeup, or times-when-we-just-want-relax and to never want have to think about our next list of items to read/annotate … generally we want to have 250 items on this list, with at least 125 higher ranked more useful topic ideas in the FUTURE TOPICS hopper … twenty-five or so of this topics will relate to the startups and philanthropic VENTURES that we curently are tinkering with – and in that pool of projects, the point is to have five key projects that we touch once a week … and to have ONE main one that is operational now and that we are most focused on getting right.

1) Microscopy, lithography, computational lithography

2) Atomic layer deposition, atomic layer etching, atomic layer epitaxy

3) Semiconductor manufacturing, semiconductor physics, semiconductor devices

4) Flowering plants, particularly trees, woody plants, shrubs, vines

5) Yoga, kinesiology, martial arts, self-defense

6) Sculpture, particularly optimal landsculpting, particularly parks and green spaces

7) Prayer, lojong meditation, eliminating cognitive dissonance, improving neurocapacities

8) Podcastering … Revoicer, MURF.ai and other AI-generated audio from text … REAPER.fm and others DAWs for audio engineering … as well as monkeying around with Canva, GIMP, Inkscape, Blender 4.0, Manim

9) Python, python community, developer ecosystems, optimizing the CI/CD process, improving code review, encouraging interaction even geometric frustration

10) Unix, Linux, Containers, Virtual Machines, Operating Systems, CloudKernel

11) Physics, quantum physics, quantum computing

12) Mathematics, especially geometric math, cuLitho, computational lithography

13) Chemistry, computational chemistry, computational materials science

14) Meta Open Access, beyond Wikipedia, peer review and wikiculture, Zenodo and research data repositories as well as ML repositories like HuggingFace

15) TRIZ, ARIZ, technical knowledge-graph problem-solving, invention suggestions based on corpus of patents … for example, consider DRAIN.tips for with the types of techniquess and tools used by a professional to unclog a clogged sewer drain … the beauty of AI models is that you can keep asking DETAILED questions, ie the model does not get irritated with all of the questions and demand payment for a service call … you can START by [diligently asking at least five levels of questions of something like Llama2-70] … the first answer is not going to be enough; many AI answers will be rather useless, eg try some baking soda, then call a plumber … even questions about what a plumber does will be extremely vague and worthless … for instance, a plumber typically uses a variety of specialized tools and equipment to unclog a clogged sewer drain; this is rather obvious, but it is necessary to drill down a few questions further to get to the point where one can be mildly dangerous. Some of the most common tools and equipment used by plumbers for the drain unclogging purpose include:

  • Drain cleaning or tree root killing compounds: Drain cleaning chemicals are used to dissolve and break up clogs, but tree root killing compounds are herbicides that will not kill most trees, but will kill roots that have penetrated the sewer lines. These compounds are poured down the drain and allowed to sit for a period of time, days not just hours, before being rinsed away with water jets … in other words, these compunds are not really the solution, they are the preparation for making other measures possible.

  • Drain snake: A drain snake is a long, flexible rod that is mostly used to quickly explore – a drain snake will not be sufficient to remove tougher clogs from sewer drains, so many plumbers will not even bother with a snake. The snake is inserted into the drain and manipulated to navigate the twists and turns of the pipe, allowing the plumber to reach and possibly remove the clog, but more likely, the snake will only bring back some evidence of what kind of problem is causing the clog.

  • Drain auger or roto-rooter: A drain auger is a long, flexible rod with a spiral end that is designed to break up and remove clogs. The auger is inserted into the drain and turned clockwise to feed the cable into the pipe, and then counterclockwise to remove any blockages. The auger is then pulled out of the drain, bringing the clog with it … of course, these augers are really tough to handle and extremely heavy to carry into place, so they are not really the first solution … unless the plumber has bought a new rotorooter and needs to pay the sonofabitch off.

  • Hydro-jetter: A hydro-jetter is a high-pressure water jet that is used to clear out clogs and buildup from sewer drains. The hydro-jetter uses a combination of pressure and heat in a water jet, usually a high pressure water using a source of extremely hot water from the water heater and a variet of specialized nozzles to break up and remove clogs. The world of sewer jetting fittings is almost large enough to be its own industry … highly specialized sewer jetting equipment is used by masters of this trade, like DrainAddict, to clear out clogs and buildup from sewer drains. Typically, the higher end of this set up involves a trailer with its own generator specialized mobile high-pressure water jetting pumps along with higher-end optical sewer cams and other inspection aides.

  • Camera inspection equipment: A camera inspection is often used to visually inspect the inside of the sewer drain to determine the location and severity of the clog … but it is necessary to have to drain somewhat unclogged or charged with clear water or else the inspection line cannot even see what it is causing the clog. The camera is inserted into the drain and provides a live video feed to the plumber, allowing them to assess the situation and determine the best course of action.

  • Pipe bursting equipment is used for really serious clogs … bursting equipment is used to replace damaged or clogged sewer pipes. The equipment uses a specialized cable to burst the damaged pipe and replace it with a new one … obviously, this is a last resort and not something that is done lightly, but it is less expensive than digging up the yard and replacing the pipe.

  • Trenchless technology: Trenchless technology such as Insituform is used to repair or replace sewer pipes without digging trenches. The technology uses a specialized camera and equipment to navigate the pipes and repair or replace damaged sections.

16) Music, Music AI, Music Metadata

17) Ollam.ai and alternatives for natural language processing tasks such as: spaCY, NLTK, TextBlob, TensorFlow, HuggingFace Transformers, Amazon Comprehend, Google Cloud Natural Language API

18) Our hero builds, uses and refines his new AI applications which are built with AI

19) Future HEDT sandbox configuration: directly integrated HBM4 GPU memory, double data rate synchronoous dynamic random-access memory (DDR SDRAM) and the JEDEC memory specifications, NVME flash drives for High-Throughput Generative Inference for LLMs with Multiples GPUs … the secret sauce is PagedAttention

20) JAX is NumPy on the CPU, GPU, and TPU, with great automatic differentiation for high-performance machine learning research. What’s new is that JAX uses XLA, the TF Accelerated Linear Algebra compiler to compile and run your NumPy code on accelerators, like GPUs and TPUs.

21) WasmEdge and TinyLlama … including the use of crun, youki, gVisor, Kata Containers and similar approaches to achieve faster, more secure, smaller footprint, lower-memory requirement OCI Runtime containerized resources for edge computing.

22) The last week or so’s worth of Arxiv pre-print abstracts in Machine Learning … the current rate of new papers is about 42,000 per year or 800 per week.

23) Methods of information geometry including things lie the Fisher information carried in an observable random variable about an unknown parameter and how the Cramér–Rao bound(CRB) or the Hammersley-Chapman–Robbins lower bound used to bound the variance of biased estimators of a given biased.

24) The last week or so’s worth of Arxiv preprint abstracts on Condensed Matter Physics with an emphasis on phase transitions and a particular emphasis on geometric frustration

25) The pattern of frustration formation in the functional brain network and our requirement to change of functional brain network across the lifespan and the dynamics of the process of cognitive dissonance removal, ie “How can we learn faster?”.

26) Develop the requirements for an EDA design-for-mfg toolchain architecture for going beyond design-to-tape-out for 180nm CMOS integrated circuit fabrication technology or simply integrating GPU & memory semiconductors into a single package which would involve looking at how GPUs might be made better including an iterative design process which would include cycling through several layers which might be something like: 1) high level design, 2) floorplan and netlist, 3) circuit verification and emulation, 4) mask making, 5) photolithography, 6) several different processes to deposit and etch which produces the patterned oxide layers for the foundation, 7) several different chemical and plasma vapor deposition sub-processes to create the n-channel MOSFETs, p-channel MOSFETs and any other transistor-like components, 8) connecting everything in several sub-processes of deposition, etching, electoplating and chemical-mechanical polishing 9) design for testing including optical image recognition for proper registration to complete wafer probing as well as he potential for minor rework for yield improvement, 10) packaging and thermal optimization

27) Generic Mapping Tools(GMT)

28) Alliance/Coriolis,Electric, Glade (Gds, Lef And Def Editor) vs the universe of alternatives for producing/documenting a manufacturable heterogeneous SoC high level design or at least an outline of a product requirement specification … to be fleshed out with tools like … Synopsis Cloud, Cadence Virtuso Heterogeneous Integration, Siemens EDA [Mentor Graphics], Silvaco TCAD

29) Key benefits of advanced nuclear reactors … I try to keep an open mind on these things, but I am not at all convinced that advanced small modular nukes are strictly a good thing since economies of scale are a very huge, very real and inescapable thermodynamic thing in power generation … decentralized power generation is not good just because it happens to be a current political fad and people are [temporarily] way too excited about decentralized things … sometimes, as with power generation in particular, centralization is a VERY VERY positive attribute.

30) Preevy and Lifecycle … or Vercel or Netlify or Ngrok … along with something like the Prometheus to scrape metrics from instrumented jobs. It’s all part of code review, preview and, to some degree, product test environments for observability of containers and CI/CD development workflow

31) Xilinx design tools … along with AMD’s RadeonOpenCompute ROCm open-source stack for graphics processing unit (GPU) computation … and, not just hardware, but also understanding the ROCm [Software] Developer Tools especially the lower-level kernel language [of C++ functions] and conceptual programming model of HIP: C++ Heterogeneous-Compute Interface for Portability which is intended to be analogous to the CUDA® C++ general purpose parallel computing platform and program model to exploit Unified Memory Programming in order to be able to tap the massively parallel nature of GPUs and achieve far higher performance than what is even theoretically possible on an advanced CPU.

32) JEDEC Committees and other means of engaging with professional communities

33) Keep up with the PyTorch blog, follow the best curated PyTorch list and personally annotate your own PyTorch list

34) Not just prediction markets for politics … but risk mgmt and microinsurance … what’s the best probabalistic outcome and how can we eliminate or mitigate the failure modes that threaten achievement of that outcome

35) How should anyone go about the process of trying stay fit? It’s primarily a MENTAL exercise augmented with AI for the tedious processes of keeping up with the literature … but, realistically, it has to be much more practical, much more immediate and an exercise in serious moment-by-moment mindfulness which inevitably involves a physical exercise component and as well as a nutritional component.

36) How can one optimize one’s Github engagement? … beyond just commitgraph … actions for build/review/test during dev … copilot … discussions … issues-driven CI/CD … better commit messages and Git discipline… become the best Github advertisement for everything Github

37) Remote work, asynch.work, ENGR.co client services, API data access connection, manipulators, system integration, project management, verification/validation … get your assets ready … attracting and outreach is huge part of it, but you need to think with the end in mind, ie how do you close deals and monetize?

38) Universal Scene Description, Blender 4.0 with Omniverse Connect, Revit with Omniverse Connect or maybe even Autodesk Architecture, Engineering and Construction Collection …

39) Tailscale and VPN workflows, DNS, Bind

40) LIDAR scan data, using smartphone video to develop digital twins

41) Oculus Quest 2 for martial arts, yoga, tai chi and flexibility training … practicing martial arts moves, visualizing an opponent, shadow boxing strikes, kicks, and footwork … maybe boxing games like “Thrill of the Fight” or “Creed: Rise to Glory” to provide a virtual sparring experience and help improve your reflexes and stamina … fitness apps and guided yoga sessions with virtual instructors to focus on proper form and technique in immersive environments … emphasizing balance, alignment, breathing exercises with Quest 2 to work on balance poses (e.g., tree pose, warrior pose) while maintaining proper form…. slow, flowing movement in old school martial arts like tai chi, using Quest 2 to practice fluid motions … warm up/cool down with dynamic stretches in VR … explore VR experiences that align with goals, practicing katas, holding a warrior pose, enhancing the mind-body connection.

42) Help FreeCAD … ENGR.co/sktch.us … in order to develop a Python scripting library [which probably depends upon CUDA/ROCm and C++ geometric primitives for coding the function sciptlets] … the ultimate point is about an add-on to Blender which furnishes the constraints and parametric entities for actually converting a sketch into simulatable Universal Scene Description for CFM/FEA modeling or manufacturable dimensioned and toleranced 3D model with material properties.

43) Participate in the larger FreeCAD development cycle especially OCCT development and the collection of C++ libraries and resources upon which OpenCASCADE Technology is based … in the larger dev sense, this means following/understandings developments and future needs of things like the KiCAD EDA tool which uses OCCT.

44) Using Fermyon Development … or perhaps roll my own WASM runtime with something like Docker+WasmEdge or WasmTime or a maybe a brand new riff on IceCore or some other approach to building an application container for WebAssembly … the point is to get a specifically optimized WASM engine for a LIGHTWEIGHT parametric CAD sketch web app to develop a basic entity for use with FreeCAD, Solidworks or Revit … the sketch app should be extremely lightweight, but include some sort of AIified or cognitive searchable Git-based version controlled model database for standard modeling components, ie BECAUSE SOMEWHERE OUT THERE SOMEWHERE ELSE ON THE PLANET SOMEBODY ELSE HAS BUILT A STANDARD COMPONENT FOR almost exactly THIS PURPOSE.

45) Examples of interfaces between WASM and SLURM to allow users developers to run WASM-compiled code on HPC clusters managed by SLURM or some other interace … the WASM-SLURM interface is for compiling and running WASM code on SLURM clusters, and includes features like job scheduling, resource management, and output handling … slurm-wasm, a SLURM plugin that enables the execution of WASM-compiled code on SLURM clusters, provides a set of APIs for submitting WASM jobs, monitoring their progress, and retrieving output … wasm-hpc, a library that provides a set of tools and APIs for running WASM-compiled code on HPC clusters, includes support for SLURM, as well as other job schedulers like PBS and LSF … MicroShift, a K8s cluster interface optimized for edge computing

46) Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and accelerating ML vector search with RAPIDS RAFT using using an ANN algorithm based upon an inverted file index (IVF) with unmodified flat vectors.

47) i7-12650H, 12th Generation Intel® Core™ Processor documents and manuals describing the architecture and programming environment of the Intel® 64 and IA-32 architectures.

48) Google Compute

49) Microsoft Azure

50) Amazon Web Services

51) CoreWeave

52) Gradient

53) Lambda Labs

54) VAST.ai

55) IBM Cloud: IBM Cloud offers a range of cloud computing services, including computing, storage, and networking. It also provides AI and machine learning services, as well as a serverless computing platform called IBM Cloud Functions.

56) Oracle Cloud: Oracle Cloud offers a range of cloud computing services, including computing, storage, and networking. It also provides AI and machine learning services, as well as a serverless computing platform called Oracle Cloud Functions.

57) Rackspace: Rackspace is a managed cloud services provider that offers a range of cloud computing services, including computing, storage, and networking. It also provides AI and machine learning services, as well as a serverless computing platform called Rackspace Cloud Functions.

58) Salesforce: Salesforce is a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform that also offers a range of other cloud computing services, including computing, storage, and networking. It also provides AI and machine learning services, as well as a serverless computing platform called Salesforce Cloud Functions.

59) Alibaba Cloud: Alibaba Cloud is a cloud computing platform that offers a range of services, including computing, storage, and networking. It also provides AI and machine learning services, as well as a serverless computing platform called Alibaba Cloud Functions.

60) Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Cloud: HPE Cloud is a cloud computing platform that offers a range of services, including computing, storage, and networking. It also provides AI and machine learning services, as well as a serverless computing platform called HPE Cloud Functions.

61) Nutanix: Nutanix is a cloud computing platform that offers a range of services, including computing, storage, and networking. It also provides AI and machine learning services, as well as a serverless computing platform called Nutanix Cloud Functions.

62) VMware: VMware is a cloud computing platform that offers a range of services, including computing, storage, and networking. It also provides AI and machine learning services, as well as a serverless computing platform called VMware Cloud Functions.

63) DigitalOcean: DigitalOcean is a cloud computing platform that offers a range of services, including computing, storage, and networking. It also provides AI and machine learning services, as well as a serverless computing platform called DigitalOcean Cloud Functions.

64) Linode: Linode is a cloud computing platform that offers a range of services, including computing, storage, and networking. It also provides AI and machine learning services, as well as a serverless computing platform called Linode Cloud Functions.

65) OVHcloud: OVHcloud is a cloud computing platform that offers a range of services, including computing, storage, and networking. It also provides AI and machine learning services, as well as a serverless computing platform called OVHcloud Cloud Functions.

66) Vultr: Vultr is a cloud computing platform that offers a range of services, including computing, storage, and networking. It also provides AI and machine learning services, as well as a serverless computing platform called Vultr Cloud Functions.

67) Scaleway: Scaleway is a cloud computing platform that offers a range of services, including computing, storage, and networking. It also provides AI and machine learning services, as well as a serverless computing platform called Scaleway Cloud Functions.

68) cloud.ca: cloud.ca is a cloud computing platform that offers a range of services, including computing, storage, and networking. It also provides AI and machine learning services, as well as a serverless computing platform called cloud.ca Cloud Functions.

69) UpCloud: UpCloud is a cloud computing platform that offers a range of services, including computing, storage, and networking. It also provides AI and machine learning services, as well as a serverless computing platform called UpCloud Cloud Functions.

70) Hetzner Cloud: Hetzner Cloud is a cloud computing platform that offers a range of services, including computing, storage, and networking. It also provides AI and machine learning services, as well as a serverless computing platform called Hetzner Cloud Functions.

71) Contabo: Contabo is a cloud computing platform that offers a range of services, including computing, storage, and networking. It also provides AI and machine learning services, as well as a serverless computing platform called Contabo Cloud Functions.

72) Various news in the world of Free and Open Source Silicon (FOSSi) … Tiny Tapeout … Google’s OpenMPW program and its XLS: Accelerated HW Synthesis toolchain … Qflow open circuit EDA design tools … the qflow open source ASIC EDA dev community … OpenLane … OpenROAD open source EDA project, the UC SantaCruz VLSI Design and Automation Lab’s OpenRAM Python framework for a static random access memory compiler for SRAMs in ASIC design … Skywater-PDK … the FreePDK process design kit, an open-source, Open-Access-based PDK for the 45nm technology node and the Predictive Technology Model … Chipyard open-source integrated system-on-chip (SoC) design, simulation, and implementation environment for specialized RISC-V compute systems … as well as the Caravel harness SOC from efabless

73) Omniverse Nucleus and other multi-GPU, multi-machine, multi-GPU, multi-user frameworks which offer a similar database and collaborative engine microservices connector archictecture with observability and monitoring plumbing engineered into an moduluar development platflom for building 3D workflows, tools, applications and services like OpenUSD and the USD Working Group’s projects and resources relating to USD … to understand what is going on behind Omniverse Nucleus, it is essential to understand the overall USD purpose and architecture.

74) Optical Metrology and Photogrammetry … especially for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs) or cameras mounted drones or balloons … OpenDroneMap and OpenDroneMap Docker … OpenDroneMap on Github …Geo for All … International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing … GEO Week … the ASPRS Community and terminology and concepts of Edition 2 of Positional Accuracy Standards for Digital Geospatial Data such as three-dimensional positional accuracy

75) The architecture of the IoT data model in Omniverse, allowing for a data driven approach and separation of concerns that is similar to [but not exactly equivalent to] a Model/View/Controller (MVC) design pattern which could be implemented with an approach that is like Blazor WASM to reuse code components in different environments, ie with Omniverse Nucleus running as a server for an Omniverse Workstation-like environment for everything that Nucleus brings to the table and a much lighter-weight less-connected environment without the Omniverse Nucleus for primarily just looking at the data without connecting to and updating the Nucleus USD database … for use cases like optical image capture in maps/geo, medical imaging, computervision/robotics, driverless vehicles, industrial automation, smart cities, smart buildings, smart factories, smart grids, smart homes, smart retail, smart transportation, smart utilities …the further universe of smart everything, smart wearables, smart agriculture, smart logistics, smart supply chain, smart security, smart surveillance, smart energy, smart water, smart waste management, smart lighting, smart parking, smart street lighting, smart traffic management, smart metering, smart sensors, smart devices, smart appliances, smart locks, smart thermostats, smart doorbells, smart cameras, smart speakers, smart displays, smart TVs, smart refrigerators, smart washing machines, smart dryers, smart dishwashers, smart ovens, smart microwaves, smart vacuums, smart air purifiers, smart air conditioners, smart fans, smart heaters, smart humidifiers, smart dehumidifiers, smart water heaters, smart water purifiers, smart water softeners …

76) Omniverse Kit aims to be extremely modular: everything is an extension. NVIDIA Modulus is a modular framework for building building, training, and fine-tuning Physics-ML models with a simple Python interface … as extensions.

77) Open Microscopy Environment(OME) and OME Remote Objects (OMERO) including how Bio-Formats library for reading and writing life science image file formats processes metadata, and provides other useful information such as version history and how to report bugs and annotate files … as we can see by looking through the Eliceiri Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation materials on Github, open microscopy is really about deeping the commitment to open source and open access in science and moving beyond just open access and open results toward a almost radically much more open, continual, long-term process of collaborative exploration in the virtual laboratory … achieving scientific interoperability is like software interoperability, in that it depends upon the adoption, reuse and (as best practices and de facto standards emerge) the exacting definition of [software] standards to obtains those benefits we associate with standard in all things to promote greater efficiency, more correct levels of trust and knowledge for much higher levels of real safety [as opposed to the false promise of regulatory safety].

78) Algebraic Multigrid Solver (AmgX) Library … computational fluid dynamics for thermochemical decomposition of anisotropic materials by AdvancedPyrolytics … OpenFOAM open source OpenCFD … OpenFOAM on Gitlab … OpenFOAM issues

79) GH200 server nodes are connected with an NVLink passive copper cable cartridge to enable each Hopper GPU to access the memory of any other Grace Hopper Superchip in the network, providing 32 x 624 GB, or 19.5 TB of NVLink addressable memory … the CPU to GPU memory interconnect for NVLink is now 900 GB/s, which is at least 7x faster than the 128 GB/s maximum bidirectiional bandwidth of 16 lane PCIe Gen 5. It’s sort of important to understand how MUCH faster the NVLink GPUs will be than any found in a PCIe-based interconnection in a home lab or ML cluster which would typically use by something like an Oculink card. Although, PCIe Gen 5.0 is not too shabby compared to the alternative, because it is double the possible 16 GB/s of multilane PCIe Gen 4.0 … a multi-lane PCIe throughput would deliver higher than the current 25 GB/s possible transmission rate of the Oculink, “optical copper link” cable … way faster than Thunderbolt 4 which caps out at around 5 GB/s or less … EXCEPT that Oculink card is only going to use ONE lane, so that optical copper link cable will not be the bottleneck … but PCIe 6.0 is coming and I/O bandwidth in even little home lab mini-PCs is going to be a lot faster than it is now … fueled by money that will be spend for remote work and computing workloads on HEDT systems for machine learning, we will likely see I/O bandwidth double every three years or so to spur turnover and upgrading for new HEDT systems, so expect that PCIe 6.0 and then PCIe 7.0 will be available and will be a lot faster than the 128 possible GB/s of PCIe 5.0 … but, for the foreseeable future, the NVLink interconnects available in edgey cloud compute services is the fastest thing going.

80) Brainstorming the MONETIZATION of bootstrapping of a new venture … how does the bootstrapped venture pay for itself: #1 ideas are free; use the free stuff first – anything that you add to a URL or location on the internet has to generate revenue … but an accelerated negotiation requires gathering a crowd of interested parties – so build that crowd, build word-of-mouth or linksharing but generating crowdliness is about leading the rabble to become a quasi-coherent crowd and listening to the crowd, really using the crowd to fund things that improve life for the crowd and generally make the crowd better for members of the crowd … so it’s ideas, ideas, ideas – but mostly the ideas have to come from the crowd … the better quality new ideas and refinement of ideas will come as you are grinding on execution of ideas … diligently put into action even though they appear to be unsuccessful, ie most of the value is in what lessons you are learning … keep your costs low and then lower them more … it’s going to be tougher than you think, so be prepare yourself for grinding on the grind … eventually set up an auction and sell out, but retain ownership and continue to be part of the idea or hold it hostage until someone pays you to go away … the point is to BE the grinder, the kind of leader who leads from the front

81) Startupcook … MVP and Lean Enterprise … stick with that minimum and polish it … build the braintrust from the EARS and EYES … gather information; then improve the gathering of information … process the information into knowledge and share that knowledge in order to build the braintrust … the braintrust is the most valuable thing … the braintrust is the thing that is monetized … the braintrust is the thing that is sold … the braintrust is the thing that is the product … the braintrust is the thing that is the service … the braintrust is the thing that adds and polishes the value … the braintrust is the thing that defines the value proposition … the braintrust is the thing that directs the monetization in a way that adds the most value to the participants of the crowd supporting the lean enterprise – but in the end, all value created has to be invested in better intelligence gathering, information processing and knowledge sharing … ultimately, the cashout plan is about putting together a CSOP, a customer-driven stock ownership plan … the investors have to be evangelists for the crowd … we asked the Llama 2 70B playground to furnish ideas for monetizing a startup … we then followed up with a question “What are ten different ways learn about X” … we keep following up with questions and our own noodling around … it’s daunting, but fishing’s all about getting your lines in the water and watching your bobber, then refining the approach to putting something into practice and then polishing the things that work and polishing more, while continuing to put new lines in the water … it’s daunting … in other words, while these ideas that AI model like Llama can give you are not exactly bad – they’re just trite and easy … each one needs the kind of further HARD clarification and expansion that only can come from lean implementation, ie doing it smart, but using the extra cheap ways and free stuff first.

  • Identify your target audience and their needs, then create a product or service that addresses those needs.

    • Conduct market research: Conducting market research can help you identify your target audience and their needs. This can include surveys, focus groups, and interviews with potential customers.
    • Use social media analytics, eg become proficient with the Twitter API: Analyzing social media data can provide insights into your target audience’s demographics, interests, and behaviors. This can help you create a product or service that resonates with them.
    • Create realistic buyer personas: Being realistic and concrete about creating and refining buyer personas [from your actual interactions with the kinds of buyers you want] will help you better understand your target audience and their needs … but it’s deeply recursive in that your target customer persona depends upon your current interactions. Until you have iteratively made it concrete, a buyer persona is PURELY a fictional representation of your ideal customer, based on limited market research and insufficient data.
    • Conduct customer interviews: Conducting interviews with potential customers can provide valuable insights into their needs and pain points. This can help you create a product or service that addresses their needs.
    • Use online tools: There are many online tools available that can help you identify your target audience and their needs. For example, Google Trends can help you identify popular search topics, while tools like Ahrefs and SEMrush can help you analyze your website traffic and identify keywords that are relevant to your target audience.
    • Attend industry events: Attending industry events can provide valuable insights into your target audience and their needs. You can network with potential customers, attend seminars and workshops, and learn about the latest trends and developments in your industry.
    • Join online communities: Joining online communities related to your industry can provide valuable insights into your target audience and their needs. You can participate in discussions, ask questions, and learn from others in the community.
    • Use surveys and polls: Surveys and polls can provide valuable insights into your target audience’s needs and preferences. You can create surveys using online tools like SurveyMonkey or Google Forms, and share them with your target audience through social media or email.
    • Analyze your competition: Analyzing your competition can provide valuable insights into your target audience and their needs. You can look at your competitors’ products or services, their marketing strategies, and their customer base to identify gaps in the market that you can fill.
    • Use data analytics: Data analytics can provide valuable insights into your target audience and their needs. You can use tools like Google Analytics to analyze your website traffic, identify popular pages and content, and track user behavior.

  • Develop a subscription-based model for your product or service.

    • Identify your target audience: Before developing a subscription-based model, it’s essential to identify your target audience. Conduct market research to understand their needs, preferences, and purchasing habits. This will help you create a subscription model that resonates with them.
    • Choose a subscription platform: There are several subscription platforms available that can help you manage your subscription-based model. Research and compare different options such as Stripe, PayPal, and SubscribePro to find the one that best suits your needs and budget.
    • Define your subscription offerings: Determine what products or services you want to offer through your subscription model. Consider what your target audience needs and how you can provide value to them. You can offer different tiers of subscriptions with varying levels of benefits to cater to different segments of your audience.
    • Set pricing strategies: Pricing is a crucial aspect of your subscription model. You need to set prices that are competitive, affordable, and profitable. Consider offering discounts for long-term commitments or bundling products and services to create a more attractive offer.
    • Develop a marketing strategy: Create a marketing strategy that targets your identified audience and promotes your subscription model. Utilize social media, email marketing, and content marketing to reach your audience and drive sign-ups.
    • Offer a free trial: Offering a free trial is an effective way to encourage people to sign up for your subscription model. It allows them to experience your product or service risk-free and see the value it provides.
    • Leverage customer feedback: Encourage customer feedback to improve your subscription model continuously. Collect feedback through surveys, focus groups, and customer support interactions. Use this feedback to refine your offerings and improve customer satisfaction.
    • Monitor and analyze performance: Keep track of your subscription model’s performance using analytics tools. Monitor metrics such as customer acquisition costs, churn rates, and lifetime value to identify areas for improvement
    • Foster a community: Building a community around your subscription model can help create loyalty and encourage customer retention. Create a forum or group where subscribers can interact with each other and your brand.
    • Offer exclusive benefits: Offer exclusive benefits to your subscribers to make them feel valued and encourage them to stay subscribed. This could include early access to new products, exclusive content, or discounts on related products and services.
  • Offer a freemium model, where users can access basic features for free, but pay for advanced features.
  • Implement a pay-per-use model, where users pay for each transaction or usage.
  • Create a marketplace or platform that connects buyers and sellers, and charge a commission on each transaction.
  • Offer advertising opportunities to relevant businesses, and charge based on ad placement, views, or clicks.
  • Develop a sponsored content model, where businesses pay for content creation and distribution.
  • Create a referral program that incentivizes users to invite their friends and family.
  • Offer premium features or services for an additional fee.
  • Develop a data analytics service that helps businesses make data-driven decisions.
  • Create an affiliate program that allows influencers or bloggers to promote your product or service.
  • Offer a white-label solution that allows businesses to brand and resell your product or service.
  • Develop a training or education program that teaches users a new skill or technology.
  • Create a community or forum that offers exclusive content and networking opportunities.
  • Offer a consulting or advisory service that helps businesses solve specific problems.
  • Develop a software as a service (SaaS) model that charges users a monthly fee.
  • Create a mobile app that offers in-app purchases or subscriptions.
  • Offer a customer support or service desk solution that helps businesses manage customer inquiries.
  • Develop a chatbot or virtual assistant that helps users with common tasks or questions.
  • Create a content creation and distribution platform that charges businesses for access to a network of creators.

Evaluate each of your own riffs/brainstorms of idea based on its feasibility, potential revenue, and alignment with your startup’s mission and values. The essence of a warrior is never quitting on the mission … as an entrepreneur, you will not know your mission until after you create something and start listening to it’s crowd – it’s total up to you as the leader to define and refine that mission!

82) Security adjacent programming (SAP) and infoSec AI … NVIDIA Morpheus … NVIDIA Launchpad:Build AI-Based Cybersecurity Solutions … DevSecOps … try Gitlab Ultimate for a month or maybe a full YEAR, if absolutely necessary … Prompt Inject is a security vulnerability … SAP involves a number of practices, including:

  • Secure coding practices: Following best practices for secure coding, such as using secure libraries, validating user input, and using secure protocols for communication.
  • Security testing: Testing software and systems for vulnerabilities and weaknesses, and addressing any issues that are identified.
  • Secure design: Designing software and systems with security in mind, including using secure architecture, design patterns, and principles.
  • Secure deployment: Ensuring that software and systems are deployed securely, including using secure hosting environments, configuring firewalls and access controls, and implementing encryption.
  • Continuous monitoring: Monitoring software and systems for security vulnerabilities and weaknesses, and addressing any issues that are identified.

83) Read more books … thriftbooks … perlego … scribd … Kindle, especially Kindle Unlimited …

84) Read more preprints … not just arxiv, but biorxiv, medrxiv, chemrxiv, bioarxiv, chemarxiv, medarxiv, preprints.org,

85) Follow more people on different PROFESSIONALLY-focused Twitter and LinkedIn accounts … more = better, but avoid politics like the plague it is …

86) Follow BETTER Github, Gitlab accounts … explore more open source projects, more open source foundations, more open source communities

87) Follow BETTER Substacks, Mediums, blogs, newsletters

88) Follow BETTER Youtube channels, but AVOID any sort of political content

89) Explore the realm of serious, ie edited/reviewed/promoted electronic publishing … BioOne, bioonecomplete.org, bioonepublishing.org … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioOne

90) Follow more RSS feeds, master Thunderbird … but don’t stop looking for a better [AI-ified] RSS reader, eg NewsBlur, Feedly, Inoreader, The Old Reader, Netvibes, Feedreader, Flowreader, Feeder, Feedbin, Feedspot, Feedreader Online, Feeds Pub, QuiteRSS, RSS Bandit, NewsFox

91) Listen to more podcasts and audiobooks … more audio, less video

92) Connectedpapers, pubmed, knowledgegraphs and reference management software

93) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines

94) Shotcrete and related construction methods and especially the durability of shotcrete in cold region tunnel: A review as well as ACI’s guide to shotcrete to ensure that it’s done correctly … but generally, we should be looking at overhauling our construction methods to capture the big sustainability advantages of shotcrete

95) Čhaŋgléška Wakȟáŋ, the ethnobotanical garden at SURF which is designed to honor the complicated history of the Black Hills, encourages learning across generations, and supports dialogue and reflection. There are many other ethnobotanical gardens in North America and related landcape architecture and design projects to explore, but it’s probably a matter of looking at the major organizations in this domain although those organizations tend to be dominated by aggressive rent-seeking politcos crusading for funding for academic cause … for example, the American Botanical Council is a non-profit organization that promotes PUBLIC FUNDING OF ethnobotany, herbalism and botanical conservation but really does not provide all that much in the way of information or directories of ethnobotanical gardens [that people can begin to explore from the internet, before mapping out a trip of different gardens] … at least, the Botanical Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) has a searchable directory of botanical gardens and arboretums, including ethnobotanical gardens, in North America … it might be better just to stick with Wikipedia’s listings of North American Ethnobotany and listing of botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States or its larger listing of botanical gardens around the world … given that camera sensors and video recording and complex editing capablities of the next generation of multimodal Gemini-AI-enabled phones like the Google Pixel 8 Pro is so astounding it would be good to see hundreds or thousands more of the virtual tours like that offered by United States Botanic Garden.

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123) AUCT.us is accelerated negotiation business development … a pre-CRM campaign management tool … look for ways that it compares with and complements different levels of Hubspot as well as the top alternatives to HubSpot:

  • Marketo
  • Pardot
  • Salesforce Small Business CRM
  • Oracle Marketing Cloud
  • Adobe Marketing Cloud
  • Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing
  • SAP Marketing Cloud
  • SharpSpring
  • Infusionsoft
  • Mailchimp
  • Constant Contact
  • AWeber
  • GetResponse
  • Campaign Monitor
  • Marketing Automation Platform (MAP)
  • SalesforceIQ
  • Zoho Marketing Automation
  • Freshsales
  • PipeDrive
  • Bitrix24
  • CloudCampaign
  • Hootsuite: Hootsuite is a popular SMM platform that allows you to manage multiple social media accounts, schedule posts, track engagement, and analyze performance. It also offers features like social listening, influencer identification, and content curation.
  • Sprout Social: Sprout Social is an all-in-one SMM platform that offers features like social media management, content creation, scheduling, and analytics. It also offers a suite of tools for social listening, influencer identification, and content curation.
  • Agorapulse: Agorapulse is a comprehensive SMM platform that offers features like social media management, content creation, scheduling, and analytics. It also offers features like social listening, influencer identification, and content curation.
  • Sendible: Sendible is a SMM platform that allows you to manage multiple social media accounts, schedule posts, track engagement, and analyze performance. It also offers features like social listening, influencer identification, and content curation.
  • SocialPilot: SocialPilot is a SMM platform that offers features like social media management, content creation, scheduling, and analytics. It also offers features like social listening, influencer identification, and content curation.
  • Buffer: Buffer is a popular SMM platform that allows you to manage multiple social media accounts, schedule posts, track engagement, and analyze performance. It also offers features like social listening, influencer identification, and content curation.
  • Mavrck: Mavrck is a SMM platform that offers features like social media management, content creation, scheduling, and analytics. It also offers features like social listening, influencer identification, and content curation.
  • Influencer.co: Influencer.co is a SMM platform that offers features like social media management, content creation, scheduling, and analytics. It also offers features like social listening, influencer identification, and content curation.
  • Upfluence: Upfluence is a SMM platform that offers features like social media management, content creation, scheduling, and analytics. It also offers features like social listening, influencer identification, and content curation.

124) Become an Amazon Kindle Unlimited author for syllabi and reading lists … not exactly like Goodreads, but more about practical education for career self-improvement and professional skills levelling-up learning … Explore alternatives to Amazon Kindle Direct [SELF-]Publishing such as:

  • CreateSpace - Amazon’s self-publishing platform for print books.
  • Smashwords - A self-publishing platform that distributes e-books to major retailers.
  • Lulu - A self-publishing platform that offers print, e-book, and audiobook distribution.
  • IngramSpark - A self-publishing platform that offers print and digital distribution to major retailers.
  • Blurb - A self-publishing platform that offers print, e-book, and audiobook distribution.
  • BookBaby - A self-publishing platform that offers print, e-book, and audiobook distribution, as well as marketing and promotional services.
  • Author Solutions - A self-publishing platform that offers print, e-book, and audiobook distribution, as well as marketing and promotional services.
  • Trafford Publishing - A self-publishing platform that offers print and e-book distribution.
  • Xlibris - A self-publishing platform that offers print and e-book distribution.
  • iUniverse - A self-publishing platform that offers print and e-book distribution.
  • AuthorHouse - A self-publishing platform that offers print and e-book distribution.
  • Booklocker - A self-publishing platform that offers print and e-book distribution.
  • PublishAmerica - A self-publishing platform that offers print and e-book distribution.
  • Infinity Publishing - A self-publishing platform that offers print and e-book distribution.
  • Dog Ear Publishing - A self-publishing platform that offers print and e-book distribution.
  • Outskirts Press - A self-publishing platform that offers print and e-book distribution.
  • BookWhirl - A self-publishing platform that offers print and e-book distribution.
  • Ingram Content Group - A self-publishing platform that offers print and digital distribution to major retailers.
  • Baker & Taylor - A self-publishing platform that offers print and digital distribution to libraries and retailers.
  • Follett - A self-publishing platform that offers print and digital distribution to libraries and retailers.

Of course, this list, like Wikipedia’s entry on self-publishing is far from being exhaustive and there will always be other alternatives that are being developed. If you want to be serious about content, you will need to ALWAYS BE LOOKING FOR A BETTER GIG … you need to develop your intelligence gathering operation to research and compare different new self-publishing platforms to find a better one that you are currently aware of and still best suits your needs and goals.

125) REFACTOR AND PACK THIS LIST … to create room for better lists … because you are going to develop more exploratory / even wilder Brainstorms of Lists … which will become packed, dense reading lists … in addition to VENTURES … which are all really just curated, packed reading lists … it’s all about IMPROVING the intelligence gathering of intelligence gathering.