January 30th 2018

The thing I’m working on isn’t 100% new. There are many companies working on the same thing but they have cash to see it through into prototyping faster than me. So, I wake up this morning to find out a couple of ex-Google engineers have revealed a similar project (a few phases in) for the same end-resulting idea.

Of course, a little put off, but I’m pressing forward regardless. My advantage and, believe it or not, goes back to my thoughts about ‘people’.

All these well-financed projects always, always, ALWAYS favor the rich, and particularly, the rich White communities. Rarely for the common person and NEVER for Black or Hispanic communities.

On one hand, no matter what I do, I can bank on institutionalized and general passive racism to own a market no one else will touch.

On the other hand, no matter what I do, the Black and Hispanic communities fail to embrace technology development, so I’ll always be the first of my kind to create in the community. The Black and Hispanic communities are consumers of technology — that’s for sure — but producers? Nope. Wide open field.

This is the heart of the ‘crab-basket’ life of wanting more in communities that don’t strive for more. It’s not the game plan to ‘ignore’ these communities and serve the rich. They can still be served. Maybe — just maybe — in the process of providing excellent service and continuing to be witnessed as progressive, the rest will follow. But it can’t be a selfish act. More on this probably in the year.

I’ll give that to ‘some’ white communities. Not all of them, but some. They have rat trap white trash communities like anyone else. But places like Silicon Valley, areas of San Francisco, etc are thriving. 

No matter what’s developed, the Black and Hispanic communities are the last to get it. My market (when all is said and done) are all people below the affordability and access radar. 

I can say this: the project is two fold. I’m 1000% interested in finding missing people still. A little technology to help with that goes a long way. I’ve noticed, each day I work on the project, I gain new open roads of ideas. This is why I’m seeing it through to the end. I might just solve a bunch of bucket-list like concepts all in one swoop.

All this talk of service for people and helping to find missing people. You’d almost think I actually cared about people.