ideas

a marketplace for tacit knowledge: where you pay to shadow people to learn hard-to-explain parts of their craft. for instance, sign an nda and pay to watch someone do a high-stakes negotiation or watch a writer write something end-to-end.

quest-based hiring: rather than interviews and cases, after a conversation, pay someone to come work in your office for a week and give them a quest with clear objective. Job-havers could do this too, as a way to learn, like an apprenticeship (ie., I want to work with someone who’s the best at x). [I know secondments exist and some companies like Gumloop already do this as a part of their hiring but this would be more candidate driven. This is probably one of the reasons acquit-hiring exists and is expensive because that and poaching talent outright is only way to get this knowledge.]

track changes and grade privacy policies and explain them in simple terms and extrapolate risks. For instance, a companies incentives or monetization model aligns with them selling to data brokers or leaking. Inspired by: https://cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/so-what-if-they-have-my-data

Tracking what early Marginal Revolution readers and Emergent Ventures Grant winners are up to. Then, extending the scope to follow intellectual influences of the Silicon Valley canon readership and blogosphere. It would be interesting to see the knowledge graphs of different niche pockets of the internet more broadly. See: https://nadia.xyz/mapping-digital-worlds

A repository of successful cold emails and accompanying podcast or YouTube channel around how the person wrote it and what events transpired (interesting stories around emailing someone for one 1 yr+ to finally get a meeting etc.,). Not necessarily business related - just any positive outcomes that enriched life of people on the emails.