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Because the guys building Facebook for dogs, or working on faster games have the transferable skills required to work on a Malaria vaccine.
by aaronbasssett 14y ago
Because the guys building Facebook for dogs, or working on faster games have the transferable skills required to work on a Malaria vaccine.
- irollboozers 14y agoIf you can make another meme generator, then you can probably make a good dent in the world. That's a shamefully bad cop-out to say you couldn't do any of these things: http://freerice.com/ http://freerice.com/ http://www.donorschoose.org/ http://www.donorschoose.org/ http://www.shiftlabs.org/ http://www.shiftlabs.org/ http://www.sparked.com/ http://www.sparked.com/
- aaronbasssett 14y agoCorrect, and that is why they are much better examples than curing Malaria. That was my point about the blog post, it says "Be like these guys!" and then presents problems which the target audience has no realistic chance of fixing, so they simply switch off.