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I posted a similar question last year great discussion there too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799007

I would suggest we make a monthly of these as they provide important insight into industries.

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Seconded. Might even help us get out of the mindset of building things for other 20-somethings to replace their moms.

Exactly. The whole point is to get access to people with insights about an industry and who can point to the problems and why they haven't been solved and connect them with people who might have solutions to those problems.

Just imagine how much valuable knowledge and insights get lost every time someone retires.

P.S: I love using all the things that replace my mom and fully support them being built. But, there's obviously other problems to solve.

Do the problems change rapidly enough for the monthly discussion to be radically different than before?

Perhaps Quarterly?

Well, I'm sure you would still get different people commenting due to one set being home on a Friday night one month and then a different set the next. I would prefer monthly, personally.

Yep, I was reading through the discussion in your post and thought it would be interesting to shake that tree once more so I reposted the question.

Great to hear.

I got so exited about the thread and it made me realise something very interesting which I turned into an essay. I call it looking for hidden problems underneat obvious solutions.

https://medium.com/black-n-white/the-problem-with-problems-4...

that is a great idea!

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