Slow Hunches
Housing is one of the most important, most expensive things that humans need.
An estimated 1.6 billion people - one-fifth of humanity - lack access to adequate housing and basic services, according to a recent report by the UN in 2024.
Existing attempts to solve the housing crisis have failed to solve the problem. Approaches meant to solve the
... See moreWhat if every grouping of 7 words in any piece of human generated written content created a unique, encrypted hash that is entered into a peer-to-peer public ledger like a bitcoin transaction.
When a block in the ledger is filled with 2,000 hashes, it’s closed, given a hash for the whole block and verified on the blockchain.
In this way, any human
... See moreCurators are API’s that exist between people and all the knowledge of the world.
An API is an “application programming interface” that allows two apps to communicate, sending data between someone requesting something and a database full of data.
A curator exists in the space between people who want to know more about a topic and the massive amounts
... See moreThe search experience on the internet is dying. Google is no longer trying to organize the world’s information. It’s just scraping it, stealing it, and serving an AI generated mashup of everything it steals from human creators in an effort to keep people on the first page of search results, because that’s where their ads are and where they make
... See moreEvery card you save in your Sublime account is a gift you’re giving to your future self some weeks or years in the future.
The more digitized, online, and optimized our lives become, the stronger will be the pull in many people for meaningful, offline, deep, connective, in-person experiences with other people.
-slow hunch to keep thinking on.