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The technology does seem interesting. But what's the monetization model?

It looks like it's marketed towards fitting in to the construction process. So I suppose it could monetize as just another construction contractor? But that would mean effectively just a set amount of money per "job," rather than any sort of truly recurring revenue.

No, but I could give you several articles that link to that article while talking about how great it is.

Sometimes, when people have a problem, they think, "I know! I'll use Java."

Then they have 2 problems.

> why would we do that at all?

This question is one of a whole genre of "why" questions that come from supposed pragmatists, but I can't help but think the existence of the question misses the entire point.

Luckily, one of the older questions of this genre was about why anyone would bother to climb Mount Everest, and ol' Mallory had such a good answer that I'll just paste the whole thing here:

> People ask me, 'What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?' and my answer must at once be, 'It is of no use.' There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. Oh, we may learn a little about the behavior of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation. But otherwise nothing will come of it. We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron.

> If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to live. That is what life means and what life is for.

Of course, with Venus, there's the joy of exploration and also tons of profits and learning to be had. For example, we could cover the entire planet in giant ads. Think of the CPMs you'd get as people looked out the window on their way to Mercury!

A lot of companies gravitate towards putting more and more into Slack. It has a tendency to take over email. The integrations also just accelerate that process.

If you can convince people to put everything in "project rooms" (or "team rooms" or whatever) instead of DMs, then you effectively end up with the ability to search all the historical knowledge of the company.

Were bow ties acceptable? What about Bolo ties?

>> power does what power wants

> Has anyone solved this problem?

You're asking if anyone has solved the problem... of human nature? I don't think it's at the top of most people's lists of action items.

> Is anyone trying to solve this problem?

Your nearest meditation center, I suppose.

I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of how to smash that like and subscribe button, which this comment box is too small to contain.

> It's usually possible for the person running a small project to ask everyone for status

Perhaps, for efficiency, they could ask everyone simultaneously in parallel, or at least roughly around the same time?

To maximize creativity and opportunity, perhaps we could then figure out some way to share each person's status update with every other person on the team?

I thought you meant it could be gamed in the other direction...

Technically, if all the bond-holders get together, they could spend up to $99M building an extremely powerful, extremely tiny fan pointed directly at the sensor.

> ...you are here to do the required work to understand yourself, your circumstances, stand on the shoulder of giants and study the great minds that came before you.

Just to offer a counterpoint:

“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

The more I experience, the more I think maybe that's a pretty good point, too.