" Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. " - Albert Einstein

" Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits." - Twyla Tharp

" The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts. " - Henry Moore

 “ The way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart. ” - Charles Bukowski

“ Only after disaster can we be resurrected. ” - Fight Club 

Log VI

1. Why is healthcare so expensive in America? Favorable insurance laws seems to be a huge problem contributing to this issue.
2. How can we use powerful smartphones to aid to diagnostics? 
3. Is it possible to combine healthcare data over few decades and derive meaningful relationships from it?
4. How can we increase the transparency between the patient and the doctor? Is there a way to present healthcare data that can be understood by everyone? There is a deeper design issue at play here.
5. Large-scale IT infrastructure is usually hard to switch out and pivot. Can it be built using modular systems that are super flexible and updatable?
6. Enterprise solutions have a disconnect; the buyer and user are not the same. Can we design a system for more precise communication b/w the two parties so that better decisions are made?
7. How do we spread production-level code literacy and encourage documentation amongst novice programmers?
8. The best way to write code is fail easy and fail fast. It is almost certain that a first-attempt at writing code is not going to be the last. How can we reduce that cost of failure so that development cycles are small and agile?
9. How do we generate cues for using creativity techniques while writing code?
10. Text-editors are to programmers what paintbrushes are to painters. Is it possible to personalize and hack test editors to provide more control over the environment in which code is written?
11. Sharing music/videos involve sharing an ugly link. Is there a better way to go about it?
12. Why can't I share text or media with someone sitting next to me without logging into specific services? Is there room for a peer-to-peer service that does not involve logging in?
13. How can we reuse expensive headphones? Audiophiles love to use them only for a short duration and then throw them away because the quality degrades. Can they be put to a better use?
14. Why hasn't anyone figured out a good way to do crowd-sourced music in public areas? With voting and favorites and a sophisticated algorithm to predict good songs.
15. I think some foods/beverages go well with certain kind of music. Can we create a metric scale to judge them? This will not only increase sales but also be more enjoyable to the consumers.
16. International music is hard to get into. How can we lower the barriers to entry?
17. I hate it when songs are stuck in my head.Is there a precise scientific methodology to get rid of that? Can we conduct more research?
18. Netflix has solved the problem of overpaying for particular media content. Can we do the same thing for books?
19. Publishers take a huge cut from the profits because of distribution costs. However, technology has made it exponentially easier to do that. But prices have not gone down proportionally. How can startups topple giant publishing houses?
20. Netflix uses big-data to analyze actor-director combinations that will be well received by majority of the audience. How can we quantify contents from books and provide the same insights?
21. A lot of people waste time binge-watching shows on Netflix (i'm guilty too). Increasing barriers to viewing unlimited Netflix will decrease people bingeing on TV shows. Can we create a browser plugin that increases those barriers to entry?
22. Most college students spend a lot of time looking at screens (laptops, phones) and yet do not realize how much damage that is causing to their eyes. Can we quantify this? How do we increase transparency of this data?
23. We all spend money of services like Netflix, Spotify and on food quite regularly. These seem like harmless transactions but can add up quickly to drain you of your fiscal resources. How do we extrapolate these purchases in the future and show an effect on lifestyle and savings so that people are more willing to save?
24. It's hard to read while in bed. This is a huge problem for a lot of people, and can surely be solved via some clever design.
25. Spotify does not interact very well with twitter/facebook to give me more insight into how music habits tie into my social media usage. I think this is a good problem to solve because this data can be valuable to advertising companies.