---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Michael Lewis <m...@lew42.com> Date: Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 2:34 PM Subject: The world is broken, will you help me fix it? To: <pe...@foundersfund.com>, <n...@foundersfund.com>, <k...@foundersfund.com>, <ge...@foundersfund.com>, <napol...@foundersfund.com>, < sc...@foundersfund.com>, <br...@foundersfund.com>, <t...@foundersfund.com>, <k...@foundersfund.com>, <br...@foundersfund.com>, < inquir...@eric-weinstein.net>
Hello world, I have a vision. It is the Truth. [image: image.png] *The short version*: we need better design, development, data, versioning, collaboration, management, and decision making tools. If we rebuild the software design and development experience from the bottom up, we'll be able to create 10x better software, 10x faster, 10x cheaper. *Michael Lewis* (me)@mlew42 <https://twitter.com/mlew42> > More > > @peterthiel <https://twitter.com/peterthiel> just watched your chat with > @EricRWeinstein <https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein>. The world (tech > (web, software, cad/cam), gov, edu) is broken. I know how to fix it, but > I'm suffocating (unemployment, student debt, depression), and on many days, > I'd rather kill myself than continue the struggle > 10:57 AM - 26 Jul 2019 > https://twitter.com/mlew42/status/1154782897242550274 > It's doubtful he will ever see the tweet. In the "podcast," Peter Thiel and Eric Weinstein make the case that *we're not actually doing a good job*, despite what some would claim. It's hard to understand, because we're so hyper-competitive. Competitively incompetent. What cannot be argued, is that *we can do better*. *The Long Vision* We need better *decision making software*. Email is garbage. We need a tool to identify all options, discuss, rank, plan and execute. Something like Reddit, that results in real productivity, government decisions, and allocating resources. Plan, then build. Design, then develop. CAD and CAM. There's no single recipe for what a "decision making system" would look like. Maybe it's just a Google doc. Maybe it looks like Reddit. Or maybe it's like WordPress, where you can install plugins? We need a solid platform (like a webOS) where it's relatively easy to build new features. I could try to speak more to the absolute mess that currently exists. Go to Product Hunt, and start counting. "Ridiculous" hardly explains it. There are 700 web-based project management platforms listed on capterra.com. And not a single one of them is doing a great job. Every single web app in the world has to build its own user auth, database, user interface, workflows, features, etc. This is sort of like having a separate DMV for every state in the USA. Competitive incompetence. *webOS* Hold onto your pants: We need to take all our software, and rebuild it on a single tech stack. Enter the *webOS*. It's like Webflow + WordPress + Wikipedia + Google + Facebook + Twitter + LinkedIn + YouTube + Khan Academy + Windows + Android + Gmail + Reddit + .... Rewriting so many sophisticated systems wouldn't be easy. Unless you realize that they're all basically the same thing: a database of users, posts, and apps. The webOS has to be a hybrid of open and closed source, with advanced licensing controls. It must be monetized, so people are incentivized to contribute (open source lacks this). There needs to be clear licensing terms, and advanced licensing controls, so developers can license their code on a per user per month basis, for example. A real Operating System builds all the critical productivity features (like threaded discussions, project management, "email", version control, collaboration, UI, plugins, etc) directly into the operating system itself, so that it's automatically integrated throughout every app. *gitOS* The core of all of this, is the file system. The data. The meat and potatoes. Git is an incredible technology (that powers GitHub), is cross platform, handles versioning, branching, merging, conflict resolution, etc. This technology should be built into every database, document, design, image, email, application, film, etc. Someday soon, *every person who uses a computer will be an expert with versioning. *But git, as a command line tool, is insanely hard to use. We need a git UI. Let's call it the *gitOS*. This will provide an incredibly powerful feature to every application built with the *webOS*. *node OS* Ever since I jumped ship as a WordPress developer, I've been waiting for node.js to catch up. It hasn't. JavaScript and node.js should have replaced Windows by now. Show me a WordPress competitor built on node.js, and you'll find a couple (sails, keystone, gatsby?). There are literally a million competitors in this field (SquareSpace, Weebly, Wix, etc). Why can't anyone fix this problem? Node.js is capable of so much more:* nodeOS.* [image: image.png] Can you help me?
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