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title: What's something you believe that most people disagree with?
description: Interview · About Me · Question 7
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I believe the majority of the technology industry is not innovation. It's increasingly elegant ways to cope with increasingly unnecessary problems. An entire economy built on managing the damage of other economies.

Most software I see solves problems that some other manufactured solution created in the first place. We build apps to help people manage their insurance because the insurance system was designed by people who will never have to use it. We build tools to navigate broken workflows instead of asking why the workflows are broken. The brokenness is the business model. And we call our bandaids disruption.

I know that sounds cynical for someone applying to work in tech. But it's actually the opposite of cynical. I believe that because I believe software can do something better. When I built Tiny Thoughts, I wasn't building a bandaid. I was replacing a $3,000-a-month tool that was failing the people who used it, and building something that actually fit the way therapists work. That's the kind of software I want to write. Software that exists because someone needed it, not because an investor needed a return on a problem that shouldn't exist.

The people who change industries aren't the ones who accept the premise. They're the ones who question it.