It's been a couple weeks. Why is it so hard to just do the thing?
Like every other person on the face of the earth, i've been intrigued by our new ability to create tools with Claude and ChatGPT. It's also led me to appreciate the importance of building enormous amounts of evidence in your favour before trying to deploy a new project. Let me explain.
Joel Speranza has been creating high school maths videos for over 10 years. All free and excellent resources that has saved me and my students literally hundreds of times. I don't know what i'd do without him. He's made himself indispensible in my life.
Similarly, Craig Barton has been producing enormous amounts of resources for middle school maths. Off the back of all this 'evidence', he's also written books and things of that nature.
Both of them are capitalising on all this evidence.
Joel has created an ATAR predictor in Queensland which is superior and doubtless will succeed. It's also at a very reasonable price. I'd almost pay the price just as a compensation for all he's done for me.
Craig has created EEDI, an online teaching resource which provides meticulously thought out sequences of learning and atomisation of maths skills. It's just brilliant. He's also just launched a new tool called "the world's best retrieval tool".
Interestingly, I assume that neither of them set out to launch a biz or make a buck on their resources. They just did the thing, over and over and over. So much evidence has been built in their favour that doing a new thing isnt really that big of a deal. Not to mention the competitive advantage they have due to their experiences doing this.
I often fall into the trap of "i need to do a biz" or "How could i make a tool that..". Why not just start by doing the thing?