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What did I work on? Well, to answer your question I've been working on solving major problems affecting our society, which include obesity, diabetes, unhealthy

What did I work on? Well, to answer your question I've been working on solving major problems affecting our society, which include obesity, diabetes, unhealthy lifestyles, poor nutrition and high blood pressure. With that said, it wasn't a snarky comment - it was an analysis of the state of innovation and business in SV in general. I'm tackling big problems. And I wish more people would do the same. We have a lot of challenges to solve.

qwertzlcoatl 13y ago
Could you elaborate in detail how you are tackling significant problems like obesity, diabetes etc.? I'm genuinely interested in your work.
- dakrisht 13y ago
  Probably not the right place (or thread) to elaborate in detail on a handful of complex health problems that my team and I are working on. But with regards to obesity, for example, we're looking at hardware and software applications to gather, analyze and make sense of quite a bit of physiological, social, and genomic data. It starts with the basics really, and most people simply have a hard time executing them: exercise, proper nutrition, healthy sleep, etc. So the goals are to make sense of a ton of data, using existing and new sensors, and use software to enable preventive medicine. Obviously, there's a lot more to it than this, but medicine and technology are two really exciting areas people should be starting companies in. Pushing the envelope, asking questions and trying to solve problems. Nothing wrong with the occasional social app or service having a big exit or becoming a major player, but that gives people a lot of incentive (and false sense of hope) to try and make another IG or the 15th chat app. It's amazing what a dozen great coders, thinkers and innovators from "Photo App A" could do, if they were focusing on bigger problems. And it doesn't begin or end with healthcare, you have energy, hunger, disease, and a dozen other real issues. But I digress.
  - guard-of-terra 13y ago
    What's in for people who don't have diabetes or obesity? I don't but I read some tumblr. Futuremore, if you could just develop a pill that makes you fix your weight instantaneously and forever, that would be great; but data gathering will only help people willing to help themself. And most of the world doesn't have such big problems with obesity anyway, while they still like cat pictures.

qwertzlcoatl 13y ago

Could you elaborate in detail how you are tackling significant problems like obesity, diabetes etc.? I'm genuinely interested in your work.

dakrisht 13y ago
Probably not the right place (or thread) to elaborate in detail on a handful of complex health problems that my team and I are working on. But with regards to obesity, for example, we're looking at hardware and software applications to gather, analyze and make sense of quite a bit of physiological, social, and genomic data. It starts with the basics really, and most people simply have a hard time executing them: exercise, proper nutrition, healthy sleep, etc. So the goals are to make sense of a ton of data, using existing and new sensors, and use software to enable preventive medicine. Obviously, there's a lot more to it than this, but medicine and technology are two really exciting areas people should be starting companies in. Pushing the envelope, asking questions and trying to solve problems. Nothing wrong with the occasional social app or service having a big exit or becoming a major player, but that gives people a lot of incentive (and false sense of hope) to try and make another IG or the 15th chat app. It's amazing what a dozen great coders, thinkers and innovators from "Photo App A" could do, if they were focusing on bigger problems. And it doesn't begin or end with healthcare, you have energy, hunger, disease, and a dozen other real issues. But I digress.
- guard-of-terra 13y ago
  What's in for people who don't have diabetes or obesity? I don't but I read some tumblr. Futuremore, if you could just develop a pill that makes you fix your weight instantaneously and forever, that would be great; but data gathering will only help people willing to help themself. And most of the world doesn't have such big problems with obesity anyway, while they still like cat pictures.