I read the newspaper. Seriously...the news. It consistently provides me with problems that need solving that don't yet have a widespread "tech" answer and the subsequent research always leads me to new sources to learn from.

Editors are the unheralded SEO stars of this age. People don't make the connection between newspapers always making headlines and having to be in with the zeitgeist of the times, but they really should take another look. Sentiment analysis on the scale which matches the audience is a superpower. Hence my belief that the Bankers/VCs of our current age run the risk of some real "French Revolution" moments of they don't better control the current narrative. For too long, the story has been "excess, excess, excess" at a time when everyone else was suffering major contractions in their living standards and were constantly being sneered at for not learning to code. "Free laundry" "free lunch" and "free massage Monday" don't sound so good when at the same time vast swathes of people can't afford proper housing, food or health insurance. The costs, all of them, to society as a whole has to be reckoned with...preferably without turning to communism or fascism. Tech can solve for "X", but only if it allows many more seats at the hallowed table.

Now the Piper is coming home to roost (wow, what a mixed metaphor!) and everyone (ie: techies, VCs etc) is expressing shock and amazement at the lack of sympathy. That lack will increase significantly if the taxpayer has to bear the brunt of anymore SV/Wall Street excesses.

I can read the paper, any issue, any paper and send you a passage and my subsequent analysis if you wish...my email is in the box.