The Best Way To Find Solutions?

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What is the best way to find solutions? I would say that there the best way has not been invented yet! There has to be more to the potential of mankind that currently exists, and I’m going to sort it out. The current exasperation of finding solutions to complex problems is either hit or miss, feast or famine; never what you want when you want it.

For example, if you want to find out how to start a bakery you will either ask real people you know, or go online and search a database like Google. Most likely both. If you are fortunate enough to have a friend or family member who owns a bakery (or used to) you will be privy to some great advice and possibly even mentorship in the area of both starting a small business and what it takes to run a bakery in particular. If you don’t have any personal connections to the baking industry, which I would venture to guess most of us don’t, then you might jump online and search Google with a query such as: “how do I start a bakery?”

I just typed that into Google and got back 76,800,000 results! That’s 76.8 MILLION results! No one in their right mind has the time or the inclination to troll through all those results! Good grief! Making matters worse, it is NOT true that all the BEST results are on the first page. Google’s results listings are not given back to you personalized like some couture pizza, special ordered in a craft pizzeria. It’s not Burger King, you don’t get it your way.

Google’s rankings, called SEO (Search Engine Optimization), are a very complex algorithm taking into account a slew of different factors and variables. The search function reads information from all of the pages on the internet and decides which ones should be a the top and which ones should be at the bottom – it organizes and filters all of them to produce a list of 76.8 million results to your baking question and orders them to how it sees fit.

If Google were one of your 5 closest friends, it wouldn’t give you 76.8 million results, maybe only 10. Think about that!

In understanding the best way to find solutions I’ve always said I’d rather ask my 5 closest friends a question than 100 strangers. Especially questions that are very intricate and personal. Without understanding the person asking the question, it is very elusive trying to find an answer. I certainly don’t need 76.8 million friends.

I envision a system that is much more adroit at finding solutions to queries. Think about how much time we spend dreaming and moving about trying to find out what to do when we want to accomplish our dreams. It can be very uneconomical. In my version of our future reality it would be economical in that there would be much less wasted time and energy in getting things done; or at least in finding the next step.

Websites and blogs such as this one are anachronistic. They are cool but a dying breed I think. They are one-dimensional in the face of three- and four-dimensional websites that offer increased layers of interaction and possibilities. Having said that, don’t misunderstand me: sites like Google aren’t necessarily bad, I’m not saying that at all. It has a specific function, it’s just not practical in understanding which results are germane to the person querying and which are not. You’re buying “off the rack” as they say; in this case searching “off the rack” in the sense that results are not tailor-made for you. Google is great if you want a ton of information and understand the nature of information matrixes and how they are inherently tangential.

What if when you asked to find a solution there were experienced people there to not only answer your questions but answer it in a way that YOU found meaningful, phrased in a way that YOU instantly got the picture. Not only that, what if you could interact with someone, or a few someones, for a period of time until you felt comfortable in standing on your own two feet – like a mini apprenticeship. What if there were also multiple methods of communicating within this interface that satisfied all of our human need for communication, not limited to only visual interaction, but all of our senses? That is the future.