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Articles by Alex Lungu
AI agents for real-time aircraft monitoring and alerts
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Alex, co-founder of Wingbits. For the last two years we've built a completely new flight tracking network: 6000 antennas across 120 countries, generating terabytes of data daily, with Spire Global and Korean Air as customers. Until now, gaining insights from this data required a data science team. Now we're launching Wingbits.ai so everyone else can easily get answers too. It's made for reporters, prediction markets, competitive analysts, route planners, aviation enthusiasts.
Taking off: Rewarding Flight Trackers in the Age of Web3 Original
When I was in college, social networks were all the rage. Up until that point, the internet was read-only; you visited a web page and read someone else’s opinion on a topic. We wanted more: we wanted to post our own photos, express our own opinions, and share them with our friends. Those were amazing times; everyone loved the internet, and it was all for free! However, we slowly learned that if something is free, you’re the product. Or, better said, your data is the product.
The Creativity Delusion: Geniuses Steal
Steve Jobs: “Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal”. And Picasso, the great artist that he was, has indeed stolen the quote: The oldest recorded quote dates back to an article published in 1892. It reads „[…] great poets imitate and improve, whereas small ones steal and spoil.” – W.H. Davenport Adams Almost 30 years later, poet T. S.
We're All Geniuses
“How do you come up with great ideas and then make them happen?” There are literally thousands of books and videos out there telling us how to be creative. How to act creative. How to unleash our inner creativity. “How do you create an idea that has meaning?“ We’re told that there are exact steps we need to take, in order to get out of the box. Complete guides for coming up with… “the unique way of looking at things…“ Reaching that that Eureka Moment. Five step workouts for your brain.
The Creativity Delusion: There is no Genius
Creativity toes a blurry line between magic and genius. Ideas seem to happen in the flash of an instant, works appear to be born whole, discovery only works with “eureka!” moments, and, to us, the only real creator is the misunderstood genius enveloped in a powerful aura of originality. But these nearly magical properties have steadily grown out of proportion. We have come to idealize the genius, vilify all “unoriginal” works, and even misunderstand our own brains.
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