After twelve years as a startup CTO, I set 2022 to be a year for pursuing projects with principles that were the polar opposite of the Silicon Valley ethos. I would spend my work time on a variety of projects that had no commercial potential, no ambitions for large-scale or widespread usage, and no supposed economic or technologcial utility. But they would be ambitious in another way - to realise a single good idea, to create a small amount of beauty, to uniquely serve one person or one family.
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