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Brokenness = potential energy. Anything badly broken is a dam holding back a lake of unrealized desires. A startup that can bore a hole through such a dam can liberate all that energy.
The opportunity that comes from brokenness = the number of people affected times how much it hurts them. For example, US higher education is massively broken. In exchange for degrees that are often worthless, millions of people get into debt that will burden them for decades.
The source of the brokenness of US higher education is a mixture of social custom, institutional rigidity, and government policy that would be extremely hard to unravel. But Lambda School just bored a hole through the dam.
Lambda School may not be a complete solution to the brokenness of US higher education, but it's an immediate one. And the hole in the dam is still small, but it's growing at startup rates.
What other problems can be solved by boring a hole through the dam? Could you fix healthcare? On the face of it, it seems unlikely. But I didn't think higher education could be fixed either before I saw Lambda School.
(I know I'll get hell from trolls for suggesting a startup might fix healthcare. "Tech bro thinks startups can fix all the world's problems." But if I can set off a spark in the brains of a handful of people who might drill through such dams, I'll take that deal.)
Reframing entropy as potential energy is a bold move. Me gusta.
Some of us spend a lifetime staring at the damn of unrealized desires, not realising that we have the chisel of counter-intuitive thinking in our back pocket. A few chips here and there and we might earn a set of keys to the wrecking ball of societal change.
I prefer the analogy of a slingshot right before it breaks
The financial sector underlies a lot of the brokenness in the US. They made $34B last year off mandatory loans to people who are in the most need of help.
How exactly do you define brokenness, while avoiding confirmation bias? I sometimes feel many of us pick something to fix, and THEN call it broken. And if you look deep enough, you sure can find cracks in anything, it just may not be truly broken ..
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