maverick2

I've been a Business Analyst(BA) for past 6 years in traditional setup working with big insurance companies on projects related to online sales funnel optimization, creating tools for underwriters and actuaries.

The people and process are slow and archaic. What are ways to move to build/maker type companies.

Web search (Google in particular) evolved and optimized over last decade. It has been optimized for users to search and find the most trustworthy sources of information in context of the query.

However as web evolved and economies evolved, a majority of web searches are to make a purchase(concert/bus/train/airline tickets, order food, buy anything off of amazon/ebay etc).

So for the times, when you know exactly what you are looking to buy. You are still sent of to different websites/app to look for best price. So there no knowledge graph like feature for shopping.

What if an app had your default shipping address, and knew all the card you have and then once you look up for an item it hunts the best price across all reputable sites and applies any discount codes. Also figures how you should pay depending on which card will get you maximum cash back.

Thoughts?

I've realized that once I am done watching a Ted talk, reading an article/HN post etc and left with a feeling to have learnt something. Then I just move to next interesting thing. Doing this over and over does result in having knowledge about alot of topics. But sometimes when I am going through web history of what all I've watched or shared of social media, and although I remember being awed by that subject at the time I watched it. But I do not remember much about it at all. Then what is the point to reading books watching so many good talks etc ?