Are You Getting Your Grocery in 15 Minutes?

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Spencer Platt: I'm shocked at the level of optimism he just expressed. He says we often can't be confident what's a good idea, but there are ways to eliminate bad ideas. If you're going to do a go-puff clone in Turkey and try to raise capital, "it feels like a silly use of money all around" But if someone else is trying to make Uber for dogs reality, that kind of feels like a waste, Blunt says.

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How are curiosity and innovation connected? What's the most important problem in your field? And are you working on it? Why or why not? Is curiosity the best heuristic — either for an individual or for society at large — for finding valuable problems to work on? What mental models do people tend to use by default? How much is an academic degree worth these days? What are some alternatives to degrees that could count as valid credentials, i.e., as unfakeable (or very-hard-to-fake) signals of someone's level of skill in an area? Can people learn to fake any kind of signal, or are there some that are inherently unfakeable?

Rohit Krishnan is an essayist at Strange Loop Canon, where he writes about business, tech, and economics. He's been an entrepreneur and an investor and is very excited to see when crazy ideas meet the real world. Follow him on Twitter at @krishnanrohit.

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