People around me only scratched the surface
In my first job I noticed something I could not stop seeing. People around me looked at the surface of a problem and then decided. Their discussions were shallow. There was no depth in them, and nobody seemed to miss it.
The cow game
In 2020 I started my first company. The people I hired, the vendors I worked with, almost everyone I came into contact with had the same problem. So I designed a small activity for my team. We called it the cow bullet point essay.
Every day at tea time, one person got a random topic. The first one was "cow". They had to say ten points about it, out loud. There was one rule: whatever came to the audience's mind, the audience said first, and the person with the topic could not repeat it.
Within two minutes the team had already spoken every shallow thought. The person holding the topic was left to find ten observations that were unique and smart, and that was hard.
But as the weeks went by, something changed in the whole team. They thought before they talked, and I could see the difference.
The cow game is written up as a practice you can try on your own.
Then it happened to me
Many years later I was stuck in the same condition myself. I was the CEO of a healthcare startup. In my case, stress gave me two things: unlimited eating and unlimited social media. I had both.
I stayed stuck for a year or two. Then one day I decided to break the chain. I read a lot of books. I spent hours, then days, then months observing human psychology: the trigger points, and why attempts to change fail. Then I designed a platform for myself, to get me out first.
It helped me get out. That is my experience, not a study.
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My daughter asked for a copy
One day my daughter found me using it. She loved the surprises it gave and the goosebumps that came with them. She demanded a copy for herself.
I launched it publicly so she could have one. That is where DoomsHuman started.
Why "DoomsHuman"?
The motive of this platform is not to earn money. It is to prepare humans for Dooms Day.
When corporate giants or a super AI take over most of the world, there will be a small group of people who rebel against them. That group will be smart, sharp and real.
DoomsHuman is one step in preparing humans for that race.
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