Money - No Object

This substack is dedicated to the fundamental principle that good ideas eventually attract funding.

Good ideas need money … but funding more desperately needs good ideas.

This substack asks you to take money out of the equation - consider and refine the grand and glorious ideas that could make the world a better place, and, just maybe, you’ll inspire others to join you in making them a practical reality.

Ground rules

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
(credited to Harry S. Truman)

By using this substack, you are implicitly agreeing to a few ground rules. Don’t like them … let me know. Maybe I’ll change them … maybe I won’t.

Permission to steal

Everyone reading this substack has permission to utilize without remuneration or explicit acknowledgement any of the ideas or comments mentioned herein for any purpose, personal or commercial, subject to two conditions:

  1. Do not indicate or imply any endorsement, support, or acceptance by me or any commenters for your work.

  2. Provide (somewhere reasonable) an acknowledgment of the form “Inspired by the Money - No Object substack”.

In other words, if you like one of the ideas mentioned, feel free to adapt it however you want and then make it a reality!

Updates and Submissions

Have an excellent idea? Please feel free to contact me (through the e-mail below). Any ideas sent to me are subject to the same terms as this substack, and I make no promises up front to read or respond to them. However, if I really like them, perhaps I will.

Posts on this substack may also be refined over time, based on comments and further ideas, possibly without any explicit references. Refined posts will be marked with similar titles to indicate their relationship to one another.

If these ground rules change, the updates will be noted on this page and will be applicable only to future posts and comments.

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A fanciful discussion of things to do were financial cost not a constraint.

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Ari Trachtenberg is a veteran academic researcher and educator, with a background in engineering and computer science. His views on Ignorantia Peritorum are exclusively his own.