The rise of (societal) resilience tech

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has been dumped into one of the worst moments for economic and social mobility in recent memory (global financial crisis, etc.), which has
led us to massively over-optimize our lives to try to extract any value we can
Baby boomers could work at a big company for thirty years at 40-50 hours a week with stable and increasing pay (with pensions!), while
millennials have to simultaneously hold down four gigs and make their Instagrams and LinkedIns look great lest they fail to land their next
gig, all while operating under the pressure of horrific levels of student loans.Nod or shake your head, but I also think Petersen is getting
at a much tougher challenge for society, one that I think will be one of the richest areas for investment in the coming years for founders
and venture capitalists.That thesis is around wellness and resilience, but not just of the health/physical variety
It also encompasses the reliability of our products, the level of income we receive each week, whether a storm might knock out our power,
and how we read the news
Modern life is complicated and also chaotic, jumping from crisis to crisis we can barely understand
The question then becomes whether there are solutions that can absorb some of that complexity and chaos to simplify and satisfy our
lives.This week, rivers of glistening ink flowed over Lambda School, a Y Combinator alum that is using income share agreements to fund
tuition at its schools
ISAs as a financial model are reasonably simple: if you go to a school, you agree to repay that school a fixed percentage of your income
Lambda School argues that this provides incentive alignment, because the school wants its graduates to be as successful as possible, while
models for offering services.That aside, Lambda School is really offering a pathway to a more resilient life
If the economy collapses, student debt today still has to be paid on a fixed schedule, regardless of employment opportunities
Want to take a year away from a high-paying job to work at a non-profit You can, and Lambda adjusts without you even having to make a phone
Just take a look at some startups I have profiled in the past year
Even is building out a savings model so that anyone can plan for financial independence
Wild Type is manufacturing salmon that can provide more sustainability to our environment and absorb climate change shocks.There has been an
enormous academic debate for more than two decades about the meaning of GDP, and whether there are alternative models worth exploring like
Gross National Happiness
There are deep intricacies in that debate, but I would offer you this conclusion: we can wait for top-down permission to make a more
resilient society, or we can create bottoms-up solutions that take some of the complexity and chaos out of modern life today
experimenting with new content forms
Arman and I are still exploring our obsessions from last year, including 5G deployments, China tech geopolitics, next-gen semiconductors,
and GPS.But the new direction we are going to spend some cycles on is this resiliency theme described above
How do we innovate for climate change How do we handle the increasing complexity of modern life, whether it is educational/informational,
financial, or health What does water security mean, and how is the world going to adapt and innovate to ensure ten billion people have
access to safe drinking waterI love hearing from readers, so if you have thoughts, opinions, articles or books, share them with me:
and its potential to solve climate change
around innovation and climate change
He poses two key questions: 1) should we take serious action on climate change, and 2) do you believe that taking action is very hard He
change
geoengineering
He argues that the messiness of JS is a feature and not a bug, representing the flourishing of human creativity rather than a militarized
load on engineers
Sounds like resiliency if you ask me.On a more personal front, I wrote a long list of my personal favorite reads and writes of 2018.Reading