Problems Brainstorming

Problems are everywhere. You’ve probably even got one now!

However, finding a problem to solve that is in the intersection of . . . 

A problem I am interested to solve

A problem I have the skills and knowledge to solve

A problem that another person is willing to spend money to solve

With a solution I have that is significantly better than what is currently available

. . . is actually quite difficult to find

So, I’d like to allocate time to continuously brainstorm and eventually I’ll find a problem that meets this intersection that I can iterate over. 

I will start at a high level and will incrementally add more detail. Then, create a spreadsheet and evaluate if each of the five dimensions are met.  

What are problems at a high level? 

• Environment
• Health
• Economic
• Efficiency 
• Effectiveness 
• Emotional 
• Creativity 
• Organization
• Administration
• Collaboration
• Addiction 
• Time Management
• Agricultural
• War and Conflict
• Resource Limitations
• Dependence
• Infrastructure
• Supply Chain
• Energy
• Construction

Let’s think about each of these incrementally

• Environment
  • Wildlife 
  • Pollution
    • Air
    • Water
    • Soil
    • Noise
    • Radioactive
    • Light
    • Thermal 
  • Global Warming
    • Co2 increase in the atmosphere
    • Results in natural disasters 
  • Waste Disposal 
    • Reduce, reuse, recycle
    • Landfill
    • Litter
  • Ocean Acidification 
  • Loss of biodiversity (living things in the environment) 
  • Deforestation 
    • forests the size of 20 football fields are cut down
    • Soil erosion 
    • Increased greenhouse gasses
  • Ozone Layer Depletion
    • Stops UV rays from the suns
    • Prevents skin cancer
  • Acid Rain
    • Mixed with elements and gasses that are more acidic than normal. Can cause raspatory diseases and causes issues with plants
  • Dirty Water
    • 1 in 9 people lack access to healthy water
    • 1 in 3 people globally lack access to a toilet
• Health
  • Physical Health
    • COVID 19
    • Pandemic Prevention
    • Disease
    • Virus
    • Obesity 
    • Exercise
    • Energy
    • Sleep 
    • Diet
    • Weight Loss
    • Headaches
    • Heart Attack
    • Limited Energy
    • Cannot visualize KPIs in body
  • Mental Health
    • Depression
    • Anxiety
    • Stress
    • Cannot see a log of my thoughts
• Microeconomic
  • Maximizing Utility
  • Poverty
  • Increasing revenue 
  • Funding for projects
  • Profitability 
  • Capital Allocation
• Macroeconomic 
  • Increasing GDP
  • Correcting inflation
  • Stagnating Economy
    • Increase employment
    • Increase productivity
• Efficiency
  • Automation 
  • Labor shortage
  • Business Process
  • Energy input to output ratio
• Effectiveness 
  • Go to Market Strategy
  • Sales
  • Marketing
• Emotional 
  • Redirecting negative to positive sentiment
  • Course correcting action
• Creativity 
  • Brainstorming efficiency 
  • Innovation
  • What products for focus on developing
  • Finding a market need
• Organization
  • Managing other people’s disorganization 
• Administration
  • To Do List
    • Priority
    • Backlog
  • Accurate project plan
  • Project progress per resource
  • Knowing what everyone is working on at the same time
• Collaboration
  • Limited Personal Network
  • Aligning goals
  • Providing incentives
• Addiction 
  • Alcoholism 
  • Cigarettes
  • Porn
• Time Management
  • Focus
  • Eliminating Distractions
  • Planning
• Agricultural
  • Food allocation
  • Water levels are falling faster than replenished
  • Nutrients are removed from soil faster than replenished
  • Plants are harvested and replanted every year
    • Potential Solution: Perennial plants
• War and Conflict
  • Preventing
  • Ideological 
  • Resource limitations 
  • Land to population limitations 
• Resource Limitations
  • Oil
  • Electricity
  • Land
  • Mining
  • Identifying material location
• Dependence
  • On other nations
    • Manufacturing costs
  • On other groups
  • On specific people 
• Infrastructure
  • Building new stuff
  • For some organizations to improve infrastructure is to reduce costs of their inputs or increase prices of goods sold
  • Keeping old stuff in order
  • Allocate budget to infrastructure projects
  • Roads
  • Bridges
    • Fracture critical. Holes in a bridge
    • Closing a bridge due to disrepair will increase time to transportation
    • Impacts trucking industry 
  • Highways
  • Waterways 
    • Closures cost USA billions of dollars per year
    • Old dams 
    • Locks and dams prevent water for getting too low for boats and ships to pass through 
  • Ports
    • South of Louisiana is the a port in USA
    • For each foot you lower in a dam you lose cargo
  • Public Transportation
  • Tunnel maintenance
    • Concrete cracking
    • Tunnel closure reduces nation GDP
• Energy
  • Sustainability 
  • Battery Production
  • Battery Disposal
• Construction
  • Completing projects timely and under budget

. . . to be continued.