🧠BrainTrust

thomas

Laundry guy came to collect shirts today. He would normally give me a paper receipt where he simply writes down how many there are.

Today, he whipped out a mobile printer from his bag. He fiddled with it for a minute to switch it on and pair it with his phone. He then opened a bespoke app on his phone in which he proceeded to painstakingly enter the type of clothes and the number of pieces. After another minute or so, he gave up because the 5G connection sucks inside the building. He left without giving me a receipt because he no longer carried the usual stubs.

We don’t need to digitize everything

https://x.com/robertmsterling/status/1889097312103747776

Years ago I was working in Kenya where I saw start up tech companies enter low income neighbourhoods to try and help them overcome what they perceived as inefficiencies. I'll never forget seeing people in suits showing duka owners how they can restock their shelves quicker by scanning items, only for the owners to smile & shrug at these solutions. 
I left with clarity around two things:

1) The pace of life differs across the world, and the sense of urgency to replenish something immediately is felt more in western cultures. The duka owner saw their inventory supply as a minor inconvenience and could wait a day or two for the items to arrive. The community is also used to this pace and continues to survive regardless. 

2) primitive tech (in this instance pencil & paper) will never fully be replaced by digital solutions, simply due to the fact that they don't need to rely on anything else to work. The more layers of abstraction the worse the adoption.

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⚠️Correction: at the end I meant to say layers of complexity, not layers of abstraction.

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💯% Classic case of a solution looking for a problem as opposed to the other way around.

another example, in two words: parking app