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As a general rule, one should expect no-one to care about anything new you happen to be working on. Consider: if people cared, it would be done already. The onl

As a general rule, one should expect no-one to care about anything new you happen to be working on. Consider: if people cared, it would be done already. The only worthwhile, achievable things that aren't already done are the things that people don't care about - through ignorance, or some other barrier that can be eliminated by persuasion and demonstration (usually much more the former than the latter). Take my latest side-project: https://www.opencures.org https://www.opencures.org From a sympathetic audience of thousands who read my other related work, persuading even a handful of people to help Open Cures in any way is real challenge. This is the way of the world: if people cared and agreed and were up for it at first glance, it would be done already. So expect the long uphill fight. It says nothing about the merits of what you're doing; it just is.

rokhayakebe 15y ago
The only worthwhile, achievable things that aren't already done are the things that people don't care about How does Groupon fit into this statement?
dodo53 15y ago
>As a general rule, one should expect no-one to care about anything new you happen to be working on. Consider: if people cared, it would be done already I think that's a bit of a jump! There's plenty of things that people care about but don't personally think they could achieve. If you do a startup to end world hunger, people would be interested as soon as you proved your credibility in actually achieving it. Also - Interesting side-project! What's your background (are you a software dev? biotech scientist?)
- reasonattlm 15y ago
  I'm a software tech, with a few years of experience in writing about the life science field - this would be a lot easier to bootstrap if I had actual biotechnology skills and deep knowledge there as well. There are people working credibly on ending world hunger, and all sorts of other even more important projects (such as ending aging, which kills far more people and causes far more harm in the developing world) and they have the same uphill struggle and lack of interest. I submit that we're using different reflexive definitions of the word "care", which might be expanded out as (a) "care in the abstract sense" and (b) "care enough to actually do something".

rokhayakebe 15y ago

The only worthwhile, achievable things that aren't already done are the things that people don't care about How does Groupon fit into this statement?

dodo53 15y ago

>As a general rule, one should expect no-one to care about anything new you happen to be working on. Consider: if people cared, it would be done already I think that's a bit of a jump! There's plenty of things that people care about but don't personally think they could achieve. If you do a startup to end world hunger, people would be interested as soon as you proved your credibility in actually achieving it. Also - Interesting side-project! What's your background (are you a software dev? biotech scientist?)

reasonattlm 15y ago
I'm a software tech, with a few years of experience in writing about the life science field - this would be a lot easier to bootstrap if I had actual biotechnology skills and deep knowledge there as well. There are people working credibly on ending world hunger, and all sorts of other even more important projects (such as ending aging, which kills far more people and causes far more harm in the developing world) and they have the same uphill struggle and lack of interest. I submit that we're using different reflexive definitions of the word "care", which might be expanded out as (a) "care in the abstract sense" and (b) "care enough to actually do something".