Lol…yea, same thing happened to a comment I made a few weeks ago. Everyone started talking about all the drugs they take and it’s a chemical thing and that there’s no other hope without them. This is where we are at in this country. Look at all the drug commercials on tv. And then…you know, people against the vaccination drugs but that take tons of others. I’ve given up on people at this point. They are so lost.
Advice to OP. Just do anything besides what you are currently doing and that will change your trajectory. Like try not working at your desk and work somewhere else. Work different hours. Don’t work and do something else. Just don’t do what you’re doing - do one of the infinite amount of things you could do otherwise
Think of how much knowledge of the environment that we rely on to survive has been lost. Yea we’ve achieved a lot of amazing things, I won’t discount that, but our incentives could be better aligned with respecting and ameliorating, if not preserving, the “natural” world.
Oh my…so brilliant!!! You are going to experience what users do?! Wow, who would have thought that’s a good idea! This guy must be the founder of a multi billion dollar company, right?
Anyway, you shouldn’t need to announce this and get all that PR or whatever. You should just be doing this all the time. Why? Because that is how you build products that solve problems / build things people really need.
I come from Stanford, and I know all these finance people, and I do all this data analysis and you investors should all give me money because I can converse intelligently. Blah blah.
Build fucking good products by living as a user of your product. No hubris here, but I signed up the first couple thousand of my users by busting my ass on the streets asking everyone to check out my product. From observing them I learned their needs and how to build something solid. We blow everything that competes out of the water and are experiencing growth that would make the incumbents cry, especially because we are going to eat their lunch in the next few years. Dumped $1.6M of my own money into the company to do it, no investors. Moved to a foreign country multiple times to work with outsourced dev teams so I could afford it. Sleeper on floors, built awesome relationships. And best of all, my product ameliorates society so out KPIs are how much are we helping people. Got the most inspired team that’s like family. Yada yada. Wouldn’t trade this life for anything and I have zero tech background and am a single founder. Yeeeeee
So then how do you take showers or in general, how do you move on from being stuck and change activities? How do you motivate to do anything?
Given the advice in my first comment, and I guess counter to the other comment in this thread saying “neuraltypical” tactics don’t work, I was going to ask, have you ever said to yourself at the count of three you will get up and do the task you have in mind?
Mentally: It’s actually not that hard, you’re over thinking it. Just do anything else than the thing you don’t want to do. The thing you fall back on is a habit. It is one thing you do over and over, instead of the infinite other things you could otherwise be doing. Recognize in life these fallback habits and do something different. Take the same road to work? Take a different route one day. By breaking habits you open your world to infinite possibilities.
Physically: put your phone in your bedroom or wherever you keep it when you go to sleep. Don’t be in that room till you go to sleep. You break the habit of normally having the phone with you all the time. See what happens when it’s not.
Look up CCI in Colorado. They pay almost nothing for prisoners to work in industries like manufacturing. They then sell these products to businesses so they can claim it was made in the USA (so awesome!). It’s all slave labor essentially. Then, with the skills these people learn, when they’re released they can’t get hired because they have a record. Whole thing is a disgusting joke. Taking advantage of people that ended up in their situation because they never had direction or opportunities to begin with.
(Should mention they just got a new director and she is really awesome. Came from the women’s bean project. Hope she can make some positive change but she’ll have to fight a lot of bureaucracy.)
That’s a cool stat, but whatever…Just traveled (USA) via airplane. When I arrived at the airport, people were sneezing and coughing everywhere. On the plane, same thing. I’m my Uber, same thing with the driver. I tested positive after all this, albeit with mild symptoms. Seems everyone has it. Also seems like no one cares anymore (at least all these people). If Covid was a more serious issue, we’d all be doomed. Doesn’t seem USA govt thinks this is a big deal because otherwise they’d shut everything down. Know why there are no flight attendants and flights canceled, because everyone on planes is spreading it. And now the quarantine days has been reduced. Carry on people…
People in the comments making all sorts of excuses.
Tech has massive opportunities to organize and align data to make things more efficient in all these areas and it is.
Concerning profits - if the model focuses on sustainability - doing something that exists currently that is better for people and planet, and at lower cost - then there should be plenty of profit.
Sup…nice company. Definitely filling a need that is very beneficial to an ignored group :) I run a digital recruiter and can tell you for what you are offering - work from home at $24 per hour, that is a very excellent and competitive wage across numerous markets in the US. One thing to note is that, in one example, people who were in heavy labor don’t want to go back and want to try something new because of the pandemic. Something less hard on their bodies per se. so what I’m trying to say is that you should also have a good sized talent pool at the moment. If you are willing to hire younger people and give them a chance - low skilled and young labor is asking around $15-$20 hour which is really high for their level, but for the type of talent you’re looking (I’m assuming) you’d be a standout match and be able to accommodate. There’s also lots of justice involved individuals (those that were formally incarcerated) that need jobs and you get tax discounts for hiring them as full time employees. Not sure if you have security issues with them but this segment would very much appreciate a job such as this. Best of luck - if you can market your positions well, you will not have an issue getting talent unlike everyone else right now…
Tl:dr - you’re paying a very good and fair wage for what you’re offering and should probably have many interested candidates when recruiting.
Visited your website but I don’t speak that language so I couldn’t understand it, but looks like you use a method similar Nelson and Pade…? One thing we did to increase rev per area of space was inoculate wood with mycelium and hang it above the water. You could harvest market desirable mushrooms along with your produce and protein. Also, incorporating shrimp to further add to the process of breaking down the ammonia particulates during the transformation to nitrate can be beneficial and another rev stream. Are y’all profitable and scalable with the ops you’re running?
I’m kind of bummed because I was hoping there were going to be a lot more people focused on this and scaling it, but in this thread there are not…
This is obviously nothing less than astounding. I can’t start to describe how incredibly knowledgeable and skilled this person is.
Because the topic of hydro and growing food and all that is on HN here, I wanted to leave the following comment on a higher level.
Ten years ago I was super dedicated to problems surrounding water, which of course include food and all the issues we have with our food systems. At the pinnacle, I was working with a half acre aquaponics greenhouse in Watsonville, CA. We had 8000 striped bass and produced and incredible amount of fresh produce. It was pesticide free because of you put chemicals on the plants it would get into the water and hurt the fish.
It was more “natural” than hydroponics. You weren’t using fertilizer imported from all over, everything in the system could be produced on-site. The more biologically diverse the system was, the more resilient and productive.
Both hydro and aqua phonics - the latter of which has been practiced for thousands of years, definitely save a ton of water. But I think aquaponics has a massive chance of being mainstream, especially as automation and all the advanced tech and robots get better.
It’s about ecological engineering on a local scale - you are maxing out the ecology to human and nature’s benefit, and there are so many relationships to learn and exploit.
It’s strange how impactful this could be on a grand scale - see some Dan barber Ted talks [1]
Just really need to get some investment on this on a big scale, like the hydro houses in Canada. No one has, from all that I know, really built aquaponic systems on a grand scale that are economically viable. But I see it coming and after I wrap up my current company, I’m jumping right back in to working on this.
We are just going to be doing what nature did best before we murdered all of it…but maybe Mac it out super hard and super quick compared to what it could do.
Lastly, with all the climate stuff: Don’t forget, you can’t put a price on the systems that produce the food, water and clean air we breath, cuz you know, we’d be dead. Well maybe we can, but we sure aren’t trying.
Beautiful posters. I’m baffled as to why anyone would want to spend time on planets that don’t naturally support life for humans. What is the appeal of nothingness. Just go put on a special suit and hang out in a desert on earth. At least there you might even see bugs or snakes, etc. but another planet with nothing but rocks (minerals, whatever)…how is this appealing. The biodiversity on earth is incredible and is being destroyed at an insane pace. All this space talk and people wanting to yet out of here really makes me think humans are unable to 1) appreciate what they have and 2) are extremely selfish to the point where, when whittled down in this scenario, prefer nothing to a lot of things. Besides exploring space, which I think is somewhat different, can someone tell me what the appeal of living in nothingness is…
Advice to OP. Just do anything besides what you are currently doing and that will change your trajectory. Like try not working at your desk and work somewhere else. Work different hours. Don’t work and do something else. Just don’t do what you’re doing - do one of the infinite amount of things you could do otherwise