<story><title>Google doesn’t necessarily need innovation</title><url>https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/google-doesnt-necessarily-need-innovation-95cea96d0eeb?r=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KKKKkkkk1</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Food delivery is hitting the world like a cat-5 hurricane. You can’t watch a network football game without seeing commercials about it. It is an exponentially-growing new industry built atop ride-hailing infrastructure, which itself only emerged a few years ago. The driver network can pick up food from literally anywhere and deliver it anywhere within a city-sized radius.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Steve Yegge just moved to Google, his final posts were about encouraging his readers to work on Big Things like the cure for cancer instead of cat videos. And now his Big Thing is food delivery?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonsarris</author><text>Food is really, insanely important. Way more important than 99% of Americans give it dues for. In fact food is &lt;i&gt;more important&lt;/i&gt; than a cure for cancer. Bad food will kill and maim more Americans long before they get the &lt;i&gt;opportunity&lt;/i&gt; to be struck down by cancer.&lt;p&gt;And for that matter, &amp;quot;Cancers Associated with Overweight and Obesity Make up 40 percent of Cancers Diagnosed in the United States&amp;quot;, CDC 2017: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cdc.gov&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;releases&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;p1003-vs-cancer-obesity.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cdc.gov&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;releases&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;p1003-vs-cancer-obes...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And look at this graph (my own work, for something I&amp;#x27;m writing): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;KUyUwQy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;KUyUwQy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Does America have an opioid crisis, or a food crisis?)&lt;p&gt;Anything that gets more quality food availability to Americans, especially healthier cooked food delivered in lieu of microwaving a frozen processed thing, is an improvement to celebrate.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google doesn’t necessarily need innovation</title><url>https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/google-doesnt-necessarily-need-innovation-95cea96d0eeb?r=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KKKKkkkk1</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Food delivery is hitting the world like a cat-5 hurricane. You can’t watch a network football game without seeing commercials about it. It is an exponentially-growing new industry built atop ride-hailing infrastructure, which itself only emerged a few years ago. The driver network can pick up food from literally anywhere and deliver it anywhere within a city-sized radius.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Steve Yegge just moved to Google, his final posts were about encouraging his readers to work on Big Things like the cure for cancer instead of cat videos. And now his Big Thing is food delivery?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edanm</author><text>I wouldn&amp;#x27;t trivialize food delivery. Eating is literally something everyone has to do, multiple times a day. Improving it by eg making it cheaper, or healthier, is an enormous benefit to society.&lt;p&gt;I mean, I didn&amp;#x27;t think about it much before, but now that I have a child, the days of just throwing together random things from the fridge doesn&amp;#x27;t cut it, and ordering takeout is too expensive. It&amp;#x27;s either cook every few days or spend tons of money.&lt;p&gt;If the market starts giving me cheaper, healthier options than ordering pizza, then I&amp;#x27;d consider it a huge quality of life improvement, not to mention a huge time saver.</text></comment>