This 3 hour and 45 minute conversation between Pieter Levels and Lex Fridman has an incredible amount of content to unpack. Rather than summarizing it, I’ll share what it inspired me to do.
Also before I start, it’s impossible to focus on a podcast for 4 hours straight. You either listen to it in small chunks (and forget the content from the previous chunk) or you are doing something else while listening and miss large portions of the conversation. For my thoughts here, I listened using the latter method.
While Lex was talking about all of the painpoints he experiences while traveling, such as where the fastest internet is, what places to stay actually look the same as in the online pictures, etc, it made me think about how hard it is to come up with good ideas. Maybe a better way of saying it is how hard it is to come up with worthwhile ideas. Bad ideas are a dime a dozen, but an idea that sticks with you so strongly that you have to build it is hard to come by.
That’s when I made the connection between what Wade Foster said in my previous blog post and what Pieter Levels was sharing with his 12 startups in 12 months experience. What if there was a way to utilize AI and online forums for validated business ideas. By validated business ideas, I mean ideas with people willing to pay for the solution.
This may be a good opportunity to hack something together and ship it as quickly as possible. A while back I purchased Marc Lou’s ShipFast product and have yet to actually put it to good use.
Maybe now is the time to put it to work.
Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life