We need a safe deposit box for modern times. This is a business idea that I think has the potential to be a multi-billion dollar business. The idea is simple: you ship items to a secure storage facility. When the facility receives the items, they take pictures of each item and store them for you. […]
New Restaurant Finder
I enjoy using restaurant review sites like Yelp or Google Maps to find new restaurants worthy of trying. However, at some point, I would have tried all of the established restaurants that I care to try in a given area. At that point, I look for new restaurants that opened up recently. Also, a problem […]
No, your AI can’t have a copyright
On a recent episode of The Sell More Books Show podcast, they reported that U.S. Copyright Office Rules A.I. Art Can’t Be Copyrighted. Bummer. Now I can’t sell my AI-generated art, because anyone can just steal it for themselves. But can they? Actually… The headlines are misleading. It turns out you CAN copyright your AI […]
Reading List Generator
Some websites make suggestions for what you should read next, like What Should I Read Next?, Bookfinity, Likewise, or YourNextRead. There are also reading lists on Amazon and Goodreads. While these are good starting points, I would like a much more sophisticated recommendation system. I would like to see a highly customizable reading list generator that: lets me choose how long the […]
Universities Are Obsolete
A thousand years ago, books and literate people were rare, so they concentrated them into centers of learning in large monasteries and major cities. These became universities. They were concentrated areas where books were archived and learned people gathered. We still have universities today, where people go to learn. However, the internet has rendered universities […]
Knowledge Acquisition
There was a time when I dove head first into the world of non-fiction books, particularly of the personal growth variety. I read hundreds of books over a period of a few years. One year, I read about 80 books. I learned a lot from reading all of those books. But you know what? I […]