Adapting the World

The body and brain of a man will adapt when purposely overloaded. Muscles grow. Nervous system connections are reinforced. Bones get stronger, etc... When a person "trains" for a sport, or to achieve general fitness, these adaptations are generally beneficial. This is a general principle. 

A living being is constantly adapting. This is why a highly trained athlete can revert to a "normal" physique and aerobic capacity in only a year or two of chronic inactivity. Conversely, an untrained person can get "in good shape" in a relatively short time. Usually the untrained person makes big gains from 0 quite rapidly, but diminishing returns set in.

Much of "training" resembles play activities in children and young animals. We have a kitten in our house. He's about 4 months old now and is still extremely full of energy. He spends a lot of time running around and climbing and play stalking, or hiding, or play hunting string and toys. Children do many of the same things a puppy, kitten, bear cub, etc... do. I remember climbing trees, jumping out of trees, jumping from high places, learning to dive and roll, etc... as a child. All that activity is building up the sense of balance and neural pathways relating body position to the center of mass and balance.

Much of that activity ceases as people (or animals) transition to adulthood. Life becomes "serious". For animals, however, they engage in daily physical activity that continues training them. For many men and women though, especially in the western world, they become almost entirely sedentary. The "wealthy" can become pathologically sedentary so they rarely lift a thing heavier than a cup of coffee and spend all their time sitting or sleeping.

That pathologically sedentary life becomes part of the plan of cities and homes. Any impediment to the easiest form of getting from "A" to "B" is literally removed or leveled and covered in concrete or pavement. The reformatting of the world doesn't stop there! Oh, no, it's just getting started. 

The "leftist" takes it even further. I think Ted K does a good job of explaining this concept. The leftist wants to reformat the world so women, disabled or drug addicts or bums are "equals" to everyone else. There's a Kurt Vonnegut short story that lampoons this concept where talented and strong people are penalized with weighted vests and the like so the weak can be "equal".

The "leftist" is ultimately "religious" in that her ultimate wish/fantasy is to disconnect the ego construct from physical reality. Since this is impossible, this fantasy mutates into a plan to reformat the 3D human world into a game fit for their particular mental model of reality. I think there are several groups with a similar model of reality but with completely different reasoning and desired outcomes.  

It is interesting to step back and view the relationship of the inner world "ego" construct and the 3D reality world from the perspective of different groups. (This is the broad scheme of the movie Conan the Barbarian (1982))

The "social justice warrior" of the current day, typically a gay, or a woman, generally a physically weak person somehow got everyone else to play the equality game. The equality game is really the "disembodied ego" game. The notion of physicality itself, in the sense of adversity or hard work is stripped away. This fits in well with the "Internet world". The inner world self, which arises from symbolic representations, can ooze directly into the computerized symbol world. There are many fanciful or fictitious representations of the self in that world, for example, "filters" applied to photographs can transform a very average looking person to a very attractive person in social media. It seems like Asian people have some kind of weird addiction to that concept.

The money-people are actually really similar to the lefty people and it's not a surprise that they often align with that group. Their mental model is all about money. They're not interested in actually "doing" things, as they are in "making money" in any way they can. It's not surprising Jeffrey Epstein, for example, was aligned with a bunch of "leftists" like Noam Chomsky. Epstein, a sexual predator literal flesh trafficker who seemingly abducted women and sold them and possibly had them murdered would chat with lefty people about "equality". The money people view everything in the world as an item to buy and sell and markets to control. That concept spans many different groups.

Handicapped Psychos

Humans have been modifying the external 3D reality world to suit their inner world for many thousands of years. Europe and the Americas, for example, have been heavily modified for agriculture, to kill off predatory animals or other animals competing for natural resources. Roads, houses, sidewalks, water systems, etc... have been built. Some areas of the world are an entirely synthetic environment. Los Angeles or NYC or Tokyo are such places.

Another approach would be to adapt one's body to move through and live in such an area. This was the approach of our ancient hunter-gatherer ancestors. They built tools, clothes, shelter that was more or less in or of the natural world.

There are side effects to living in a heavily modified environment. The mind and body adapt to the changed external reality. I personally experience one basic, simple example. For many years of my life, any time I walked somewhere, it was only on a sidewalk, or around an open yard, or in a building. When we moved to our current property, I walked in woods, up and down ravines, over rocks across streams, through deep snow, etc...

I noticed my range of motion and balance had been compromised by years of easy walking. The stabilizer muscles and nervous system connections for balancing winnowed away. Also the ability to take even a modest impact from jumping down a couple of feet was gone. It would "hurt" to just hop off a log or boulder.

The relationship between the mind and body and the modified environment is recursive and ongoing. If the overall concept here is the loss of adversity ends up degrading capability, then the "ruling class" is most degraded. The type of behavior on display in the "Epstein Files" makes a lot of sense, as do inventions like cults and secret societies. They essentially built yet another even more modified and controlled environment within the overall civilization system.

This enclosure is basically maintained by well paid servants and handlers. It's basically the equivalent of a handicapped zone and self-made zoo where people who have become defective freaks can live a depraved life. A great example of that is provided by that duPont heir dude who was convicted of raping a toddler, but served no jail time.

People whose wealth protects them from every consequence are sort of slugs after a generation or two where anything that says "no" is like salt to their exposed flesh.

A Gaggle of Pedos and Blackmailed Trash Want Another War

Well, it seems apparent Israel puppets in the US government will start a full scale war with Iran maybe in the next couple of weeks. I guess we'll see if the Iran government has the means to sink an US ships with hypersonic missiles--this is a claim that's been around for a while.

This is all for the larpers in Schlomo land and the blackmailed pedos in DC and other places around the world.

Totally gross.

Remarkable Video about Jews

This is a very interesting video entitled "The Empire of Evil". It is cued up to a section covering a book written by Benjamin D'israeli, the jewish Prime Minister of England back in the mid 1800s. It discusses jewish scheming in europe, basically.

"There is no spoon"

In The Matrix one of the "breakthrough" moments for the Neo character is the realization "there is no spoon". That is, "the world" is actually his imaginings. This is a pervasive, even common idea today, "if you just believe" anything is possible.

This concept propels the world of the perpetual sales pitch in which we live. There's a non-stop selling of various ideas of conmen that run corporations, governments, or NGOs. If everyone believes a thing it will become physical truth, that is ideas can magically precipitate into reality. These conmen imagine they are "magicians" who conjure reality out of the aether.

One of the weirdest variations on that theme is some people imagine they can "change their gender" via plastic surgery and mega-doses of hormones. This weird, wishful thinking is emblematic of a desired "new deal" between the ego and 3D reality.

Many billions of dollars, apparently, have been squandered on the "transgender" fantasy while many thousands of people sit in a wheelchair wishing they could walk again because of nerve damage in the spine. Nobody puts forth the concept that walking again is only a byproduct of "wanting it" enough as a society, however, we're constantly enjoined to imagine men are really women because they have long hair, wear makeup and take hormones.

I am beginning to wonder if this desired "new deal" between the ego and 3D reality is basically a case of mass "brain damage" essentially of the so called ruling class. In some cases, the families of wealthy people have been insulated from real world feedback or consequences for several generations. They're essentially "spoiled rotten".

Solving Problems Everyone Has

My theory that the tech industry is completely saturated like railroads were in the 1890s is sound, I think. I think when the "AI bubble" pops, as it already seems to be doing, there won't be a post dot-com style reset... it'll just flatline. I feel kind of sorry for the younger dudes who "learned to code" in recent years. It will be quite a struggle compared to the greenfield days of the 90s and early 2000s. Basically the narrative of "the singularity" or "disruptive tech" or the techtopian future is flopping into the mud.

I think the immediate future is about solving practical, pragmatic problems, that is, problems everyone has; problems involving basic aspects of life, like clean drinking water, or disposing of waste, building cheap roads or houses, etc... Nobody needs another tech gadget or AI, or a humanoid robot. Everybody needs those basic things, like a cheaper road that lasts, or is very cheap and easy to repair. Everybody needs good healthy food packed with nutrients, etc...

Anyway, I think getting out of the boom/bust super financialized parts of the economy like tech is a really good idea.

Solving Problems Nobody Has

A point I return to over and over is nobody really needs the crap the economy keeps cranking out. Let's take "5G" networks. The 4G network was all built out, then within maybe a year or two, "5G" network equipment began replacing all that stuff. I was perfectly happy with my 4G service. I could watch videos, etc... on my android phone anywhere. I don't notice an iota of difference with 5G stuff even after my network provider spent billions on it.

Similar things happen with Wi-Fi. I lost track of all the Wi-Fi standards a long time ago. We have a relatively old, but very reliably Wi-Fi access point in my house. We stream videos, transfer files around, etc... with no problems. Why would I buy another one? There's new standards that offer very fast data rates, but who cares?

The push for EVs wall all synthetic. The central planners offered up all kinds of great benefits from those, but they're really not a great substitute for gasoline powered cars, and are not even close to offering a meaningful replacement for diesel powered heavy equipment.

There's a sort of maniacal compulsion to push more and more tech crap instead of perfecting and reducing the costs and impact of existing tech. In fact, that "perfecting" mindset seems to have disappeared everywhere in the world. For a while, it was the Japanese manufacturing/engineering approach, but even they seem to have largely abandoned that idea.

I guess that's all to be expected since the world seems to be governed by psychopaths and degenerates; it looks like a cult of satanist perverts basically runs the world as more and more of the epstein dirt spills out. How could anything sensible happens when evil trash set the agenda?

Olympics--the "West" is Rotten

The "Epstein Files" reveal how "the world" really works. The dumb public gets scammed and pushed around by a club of degenerates who's full time job is staying in the degenerate's club. They ingratiate themselves to each other on a regular basis in a monkey-like grooming ritual via electronic communication and by hanging out and depraved partying. The emails in the Epstein files provide a glimpse of that monkey behavior.

I have some relatives who work in "soft skill" businesses like journalism or PR. That monkey-grooming behavior goes on all the time in their workplace. They buy each other birthday presents and that kind of thing. I've been working in tech and industry since the 90s. Nobody I ever worked with knew my birthday and vice versa. I never bought a present for a boss. I didn't have to. It never crossed anybody's mind because we were actually making and doing things.

To stay in the Epstein club, senior government official monkeys would give Jeff some insider trading tips so they could go hang out on the island, I guess, get wasted and have sex with underage girls or boys mainly kidnapped from Eastern Europe. In other cases super rich people apparently ask for the most banal advice on dating and that kind of nonsense to prove they were chums.

This pattern of "club" behavior is pervasive. For example, the "official" critics of Epstein are just in different clubs, where maybe they're not total degenerates sexually, but their "authority" to comment comes from their membership and club credentials, rather than their person, individual skills or their own thoughts--in fact they really don't have any of their own thoughts. This wikipedia banner ad evidences how these creatures really think:

The members of the club who are somehow associated with the wikipedia want the quaint outsiders of "the world" to present their "cute" folklore and fancy costumes to the club, who will curate, collect and display it, and most importantly "acknowledge" it. When I used to listen to NPR years ago, I noticed that theme was common. Essentially an emissary of the western club would go out and collect "native" culture, like some guy would play a pipe flute or sing to a drum or whatever. For some reason it would be presented as significant to American dudes in Ohio or Michigan.

Anyway, the clubs have that inside/outside pattern and the membership views its thinking job as assembling info to present to the "inside" rather than an independent quest for truth. In fact, those who do have some independent skill or self-developed knowledge can get co-opted by these clubs and turned into a mascot or totem for the dumb grooming-monkey type. That seemed to be one of Epstein's main occupations. He would seek out and promote public intellectual types who were often all-too-happy to get attention.

This brings me to what the Olympics really is for. The club basically claims "ownership" of the athletes and their skill. The abilities of the athletes lends legitimacy to the club. This happens with other professional sports as well, but the Olympic games is a big monopolistic co-opting orgy. The "jet set" cliques of the world all get together and party while some highly trained athletes entertain them. The banal hubris of the club members gets legitimized by proxy.

Anyway, I think when civilization persists for a long time, it utterly rots out. The current iteration of "the west" is the british/jewish globalist/jet-set club. Everything is a corporation. It's all setup to allow Epstein type people to replace the public's equity and ownership of literally everything with money tokens and to force participation in a game that benefits people like Epstein and his "friends".

Last of the Mohicans

I recently did a cross country flight to the west coast. Along the way, I watched The Last of the Mohicans movie which covers one of the really interesting parts of US history, the French-Indian War. One of the reasons that period of history is so interesting is the frontier of the then colonies was where I live today in Ohio, which was then the so-called "Northwest Territory".

The main character in The Last of the Mohicans is played by Daniel Day Lewis. The character "Natty Bumppo" is a ranger, like Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings. The ranger character is interesting, because he is on the frontier beyond the rules of society. "Society" is always and everywhere a corrupt cesspool, so the "ranger" character is one of the very few people who can truly be a whole/good man.

In the northwest territory days of Ohio, the corrupt gangsters of France fought with the corrupt gangsters of Britain over the remote country where neither gang was very powerful. In that scenario, the ranger type character acts outside the power pyramid and its arbitrary rules and necessarily deals with the natural order of things.

In other words, the frontier is the only place men can be full men, and where there can be actual justice and natural order.

James Fenimore Cooper wrote the book in the 1820s. It's interesting the lost America was being idealized when the country wasn't even 100 years old yet.

Another weird, tangential aside is the Ford Ranger truck embodies that concept of the Ranger character. The current Ranger, though, is not really a "ranger". The nissan equivalent of the old Ford Ranger is the Frontier.  

There's No "Fix" Possible

The "Epstein Files" show how thoroughly corrupt the whole system is in explicit, weird detail. One recent detail is a lawyer lady in the Obama administration was a buddy of Epstein and got payola for fixing problems for the Rothschild family. The Rothschild family got rich by being fixer and financiers for European ruling class trash back in the 17th century. This type of relationship between "elite" people goes back thousands of years. The so-called "Norman Conquest" was an invasion of England by another similar set of psychopath trash, possibly the great-grandpappys of the modern day psychos that play the game of thrones today. They proceeded to extort and murder their way to full control of the entire population of England back in 1066.

Anyway, it's pretty obvious there is a trans-national "ruling class". That category of people has very little to do with elected governments, except large numbers of government and corporate officials live in the swamp of corruption surrounding those people, in fact, their full time occupation seems to revolve around staying in that club and trading favors with their buddies in it. The media creates an smell of legitimacy to the whole thing by interviewing them and agreeing to their formalisms, like "titles" and honorifics. Ex post facto, the worst trashbucket scum like Winston Churchill get statues and historian propagandists puffing their names up. Trump, who is basically just a mafioso, will get that type of treatment in spite of the apparent "hate" the lefty people have for him.

These people seem to be largely incompetent at their official jobs, but are very good at staying in their club. The scumbags that sold the Iraq war for example all failed their way to cushy payola jobs in banks or NGOs or corporations.

Many people wonder how to "fix" this situation. Setting aside feasibility, the "fix" would be an absolute purge of the ruling class and their families, which is probably a genetic reset of the European population--maybe eliminating psychopathy and certain behavioral characteristics. Boardrooms, prestigious universities, yachts, private airports, castles, mansions, government offices would all be empty. That's foolishness. Another crop of psychos would actually pop up in their place and the same patterns would emerge. It might only take a generation, maybe less, for it to happen.

There's not really a systemic fix, either. The problem is the population. People are way too dependent on the system and especially "money" and little trinkets the system provides. The Obama lawyer lady accepted expensive slave-made handbags from Epstein, for example, in addition to millions in payola from the Rothschild businesses, all that stuff is really just a signifier of membership in this club of jet-set trash.

Movies like 10,000 B.C. or Stargate or Conan the Barbarian depict this system as an externally imposed thing with a historical beginning in the ancient past. It's probably an emergent property of masses of people. 

Tracy Twyman Death

A few years ago the "pizzagate" conspiracy theory was making the rounds. The researcher and author Tracy Twyman and some actor who's name now escapes me (It's Isaac Kappy), began investigating it in earnest. They possibly managed to find some site used by child traffickers. Both of them ended up "dying". Twyman's death was deemed a suicide. There seemed to be a concerted attempt to smear her after she died or was murdered. She was depicted as a druggie and insane.

I listened to her on podcasts for years and read a number of books she published. For example, she wrote a great book about the origins of money called Money Grows on the Tree of Knowledge. Was she "crazy" or a drug addict? I suppose she could have been, and still be lucid enough to compile works on esoterica and speak at length on the same topics.

Isaac Kappy supposedly died after "jumping off a bridge" in Arizona after basically posting a suicide note on Instagram instead of making a video post about it.

It's quite a coincidence that she and Kappy both "died" on their quest to uncover the so called "elite pedophile rings".

Anyway, maybe someone will actually release some definitive information via the "Epstein Files". Maybe some new version of Snowden will leak the un-redacted files in their entirety.

Mentions of "Jerky" In the Epstein Documents

 The Epstein "files" are available through the department of justice web site. You can search for keywords here. I read there are many mentions of "jerky" in the files.... there are. It seems like some kind of code word. It's mentioned a bizarre number of times by several different people. People start to speculate about what these code words could mean: are the "elite" trashbucket psychopath weirdos eating human flesh? Babies?

People Who Want a Huge Government

There are lots of people who became convinced the world needs a thermostat, and think a person like Bill Gates or someone similar should control the thermostat. Coincidentally, many of the most famous spokespeople for this general concept were associates of Jeffrey Epstein. Weirdly, it seems in addition to being global control freaks, they have hobbies like child rape and watching snuff films.

Anyway, their core concept is the world "needs management (them)". They claim if left to its own devices everything would fall apart. This is the main religion of the "lefty" people. That is, the world is broken and they can fix it.

Another mass of people, the "right" wing people tend to think individual skill and merit creates small patches of order in a sea of otherwise chaos, that is, it's you versus nature.

Both of these perspectives are based on variations of the "ego" relationship with external reality, that is the inner world model of reality.

In the lefty case, the ego is basically a pulsating sensitive vagina exposed to harsh reality. Only when the world is ordered by gays and women so there aren't even mean words, or even gestures that offend the most sensitive vagina person will the world be "fixed". They tend to go on ridiculous crusades and lead societal "reforms" and push strongly for social engineering. In prior eras, for example, they banned booze. In today's era they're big on censorship and control of person to person interaction in corporations or entities like schools.

The "right" pretends to want a smaller government and less control, but they end up making the government bigger all the time and want money for all their particular causes.

Both these groups put strong emphasis on their "beliefs" and their team. If you're not on their team and share their beliefs, you're an enemy. It's pretty common today for people to imagine a weirdo or deviant person is on the other team.

Cold is a Good Teacher

Lately, when I have some time to kill, I watch bodycam videos. It's a glimpse into a world I fortunately do not have any contact with. I'd say half the videos are drunks and druggies, and half the videos are car chases. I'll get tired of watching these pretty soon, but for now, they're pretty dramatic and interesting.

They're interesting because there are obvious patterns that emerge among all the videos. For example, drunks seize on a single idea and rant about it throughout their arrest. Another example is many drunks act superior and entitled even as they slur their words, pee their pants and engage in felonies, especially if they have a "high status" job like a lawyer.

Based on these videos, I'd say the current "young people", that is the people who are currently in their late teens and early 20s, generation, I guess it's Gen Z, is pretty mind fucked. They imagine the universe revolves around their emotional state. They also imagine they're the only people in the world who aren't racist or sexist or whatever. In the videos, when they get pulled over for driving drunk, or causing an accident, or whatever, they melt down and have childish tantrums and scream at police for violating their imaginary rights not to be touched.

There are vast hoards of adults who have no idea there's an external reality that doesn't care at all about their inner world. This state of mind is depicted very well in the movie Demolition Man. I'd put all those people in the "urban/suburban housecat" category of people. There are vast bureaucratic institutions built on top of those people in the coastal megalopolis regions in the US. There are about 100 million people in just SoCal, San Francisco, and the northeast megalopolis and a large fraction of those fall into that urban housecat human category.

I think a major factor in that delusion is the environment is so controlled in those man-made regions, especially in la-la-land California. The very mild climate and paved landscape untethers an individual's ego from real world constraints, because there seem to be none. It seems like the only problems in the world are its deviations from an individuals desires and opinions.

Very cold weather, like single digit Fahrenheit, or sub 0F temperatures all day long provides a good reminder that the world goes on about its business regardless of your opinions or desires. If you want to continue to function in the cold, you have to adapt. The snow and cold forces a lot more responsibility on individuals as well.

If you want to go somewhere when there is a foot of snow in the driveway, you have to clear it away. You have to maintain your car more carefully in harsh weather, take care of pets, wear the right clothes, etc... If you want to exercise, you have to be very highly motivated. The list goes on and on. There's a strong correlation between cold and IQ all around the world for fairly obvious reasons. There's also a higher proportion of hunter-gatherer DNA further from the equator, at least in Europe.

The human housecat population will re-arrange every institution to revolve around their fantasy world and ideological religious predilections. The places those people live will descend into absolute chaos as a result.

The AI Business Model is Very Stupid

The AI business model was this: a few companies buy up all the GPUs from NVIDIA, pop them in data centers, then every other company pays them lots of money to use GPUs to run AI models. That's one of the reasons the power constraints don't really matter much. In the mind of the corporate scum at Oracle, Microsoft, OpenAI, etc... since they'd have all the GPUs, and AI is so super necessary, it might even work out better if data center construction was halted or limited because they could just charge more for a thing that makes PDFs about women's history month or whatever.

The hype machine was supposed to get a bunch of corporate dummies to start thinking "AI" was a necessary ingredient to doing the useless stuff people do at work all day. It didn't really work for coding tasks. It seems that it is mainly for HR department emails.

I think the theory that "tech" is utterly saturated and in negative ROI mode is a good one. These mega projects seem pretty doomed. I can see the feds bailing these trash companies out--that will be even more evidence of a failed system.

The future of tech is probably niche, real value added applications. The concept of moving all "compute" into "data centers" is fucktarded drivel. It's the dream of these monopolist psychos. That niche, real value added business is going to be harder and harder to find, especially for giant corporations. Small companies of engineers can do it.

Waymo Car Hits Child in School Zone

 https://nypost.com/2026/01/29/us-news/child-hit-by-waymo-near-elementary-school-in-santa-monica/

The tech industry is a vast pile of garbage. Good news this morning is Oracle is crashing so maybe the AI bubble is popping. I will make my exit from tech pretty soon. Yay!

Bill Gates and Epstein

More of the "Epstein Files" were released a couple of days ago, I guess. There are some emails between Bill Gates and Epstein that are pretty weird and gross. Supposedly Bill Gates contracted an STD from a Russian girl prostitute then slipped his wife some antibiotics. There's no way to really now if it's true or is just a fabrication.

To me it seemed plausible. Gates and Epstein had some strange relationship over years.

I think there's basically a bunch of cults/mafias that control governments and big institutions. The made men in the cult are all compromised. A great example of that was Denny Hastert, who was speaker of the house in the 90s. He was a child molester, then was promoted to be in congress the the speaker of the house. That implies a large contingent of the republican congress people at the time were similarly controlled.

I think some members of these cults are reluctant and some are enthusiastic participants in it. The weird reports of activities at the "Bohemian Grove" reported over the years are some more info that's spilled out into public over the years.

How to Do Things

Over the past 25-30 years, I've been working "in tech" on various projects at different companies. Several of the companies failed. I could tell, within a matter of weeks of working at these places, that the companies were doomed. My assessments were 100% right over time. I am not really sure off the top  of my head what characteristics of the doomed companies tipped me off.

An individual who knows what he is doing acts a certain way. An individual who doesn't have a clue acts a different way. In the corporate or political context, it involves lying and telling stories and gaslighting people that they aren't working hard enough or whatever. The crux of the problem at the failed companies was they tried to do "too much", that is, they embarked on a big project without really knowing the problems involved. It's like building a house from the roof down.

When people don't know what they're doing that approach seems plausible, because they know certain aspects of the structure of the problem and imagine they can fill in the gaps later because they can hire an expert, or whatever. That doesn't work for fairly obvious reasons.

I briefly worked as a contractor at a company that made radioactive source screening equipment for scrap smelters. That company went from a back of the envelope concept to a full scale system--that didn't work. I got hired "to help out". I started to delve into the code to try to understand it, and started putting together some models of systems that might work but I was let go, because the people running the project thought it only had cosmetic problems and didn't want a mere contractor to work on their "design". A few months later they shut the project down and the company is gone.

Another company I worked at outsourced their core intellectual property and then stupidly agreed to onerous licensing terms. That decision was inexplicable and obvious. Rather than bring the core technology in-house, they hired another contractor to implement the motion controller. At the time, in the late 1990s, there was actually published open-source software for a motion controller system from NIST. The task to make that work was straightforward. A few people, including me, argued to do that. The company declined, then went out of business a few years later.

When I do my own tech projects, I find it's fairly common to run into a gap in my expertise and have to pause. For example, I implemented some drone mapping software a few years ago. It relied on a photographic pattern matching technique that works in open areas, but fails when there are trees. I worked on several algorithms that attempted to work around that issue, but they all failed. In recent years, people came up with brute force algorithms that might potentially work, plus people developed some alternative sensors that work, but they're too expensive for me to try.

Anyway, as an individual, I can keep iterating on projects, or trying things that might have a niche application. Tech companies could do that too, but when they rely on investor money, ironically, they get pushed onto a nonsensical path more often than not. That is, they have to make unrealistic promises and follow that roof-down model. The investors know even less about what they're doing than the managers of these companies. For them it's just a bet that will pay off or not. They rely on a theory that a 1/10 success rate will make up for losses. All that waste chewed up the purchasing power of the dollar.

 

It's pretty fatiguing to be involved with projects that have no chance of success because there's no organic way for engineers to decide what to do. When there's key missing parts, all the work is arbitrary lists of nonsense made by dumb asses.

Anyway, the way to do things is obvious and natural. Get the basics working, delve into the aspects of a project that aren't understood to determine if something is really feasible. All that effort might take a year with key people prototyping the difficult aspects of a problem. At that point, the potential expenses to develop some new tech gizmo or system would actually be known reasonably well.