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Under the section on “reimagining search”: > We live in a state of anxiety without a path to financial independence. The path to creating wealth from last cent

Under the section on “reimagining search”: > We live in a state of anxiety without a path to financial independence. The path to creating wealth from last century no longer applies. The path to reimagining search begins with helping people to understand their money. The first step starts with delivering insights into the stories that data can tell. Not sure what financial independence has to do with search results? I’m not actually sure those sentences really mean anything at all...

war1025 7y ago
> > We live in a state of anxiety without a path to financial independence. The path to creating wealth from last century no longer applies. As Marx said, you need to own the means of production. The beautiful thing about capitalism is that the means of production are for sale on the stock market.
longstaff2009 7y ago
You are right that section could be much clearer. Long term transaction data and browsing history could be used to train a federated learning algorithm to generate search results. Getting access to that data to understand what stories it can tell is difficult ask without offering a lot of value in return. In the short term I believe providing insights into a persons finances is the way to provide that value. E.g. if you have an extra $5k how do your circumstances change if you - pay off student debt - pay extra on your mortgage - buy solar - contribute to your 401k / retirement savings or showing how changes in spending alters the amount of pretax money you need to earn to support your lifestyle. or how does your spending compare to people like you?
- mmmuhd 7y ago
  You know in my futuristic hallucinations i always come up with this search solution that truly knows you (in an abstract way) from your day to day electronics interactions, that could bring you the exact result of your searches, much like when you know your data and your are writing sql joins to bring you exactly what what you want. I hope someone build that someday.

war1025 7y ago

> > We live in a state of anxiety without a path to financial independence. The path to creating wealth from last century no longer applies. As Marx said, you need to own the means of production. The beautiful thing about capitalism is that the means of production are for sale on the stock market.

longstaff2009 7y ago

You are right that section could be much clearer. Long term transaction data and browsing history could be used to train a federated learning algorithm to generate search results. Getting access to that data to understand what stories it can tell is difficult ask without offering a lot of value in return. In the short term I believe providing insights into a persons finances is the way to provide that value. E.g. if you have an extra $5k how do your circumstances change if you - pay off student debt - pay extra on your mortgage - buy solar - contribute to your 401k / retirement savings or showing how changes in spending alters the amount of pretax money you need to earn to support your lifestyle. or how does your spending compare to people like you?

mmmuhd 7y ago
You know in my futuristic hallucinations i always come up with this search solution that truly knows you (in an abstract way) from your day to day electronics interactions, that could bring you the exact result of your searches, much like when you know your data and your are writing sql joins to bring you exactly what what you want. I hope someone build that someday.