Try thinking about things in life that you want to do but can't. Usually there's no reason, it's just the way things have always been. You can disrupt these th

Try thinking about things in life that you want to do but can't. Usually there's no reason, it's just the way things have always been. You can disrupt these things. Look at the global fallout of the film and music industries. We did that. Us geeks. The really, really hard problems are: governments; banks (finance in general); telcos. I'd avoid those until you've made your first billion. But they are great targets. They will fall one day. And someone will be responsible. Here's a few. I moved house recently. I had a bunch of stuff I wanted to get rid of. I found that freecycle sucked -- at least in this part of the world. I wanted a freecycle replacement, but something much better. For stuff I wanted to sell, there was no option but ebay. I have moral objections to ebay, lots of them, so I wanted something else. I didn't want an auction. Just a place to list and sell. And on the list goes. It's like the reverse of buying stocks, where you buy into the things that solve your problems. Next time -- that'll be later today or tomorrow -- that you find yourself saying "ffs, it can't be that hard", go and fix it. And don't worry if someone thinks that they are doing it already. Because you can do it better, if you just think about it.