Project timeline · Kris Haamer
Which problems are worth working on, and where can I help? A record of returning to that question: first in personal notes, now through HAAM Pain.
Selected moments from 2018–2026. Quotes preserve the original wording; the connections to Pain are retrospective. Note dates come from the archive. The project record begins in September 2026.
What is worth working on?
War Deforestation Pollution
The starting point is a short list of problems worth working on. It records a choice of concerns before a product, market or business model.
Worth Working On:
Universal World Problems Map
+ World Solutions Map?
Air and water pollution, water shortage, murders, deforestation, war, trash, oil spills and “Elections?” appear together. The note pairs a map of what hurts with a possible map of what helps. This is the clearest early parallel to Pain’s opportunity research.
Ecological Conciuousness map
Keeping a list of businesses that offer good quality products and services.
The proposed “HQI” also asks which cloud provider is most ecological and lists clean water, clean air and clean food. Comparing providers and making better choices starts to sit alongside mapping problems.
Haamer Quality Infex HQI
What are the most polluting industries?
Energy production and distribution, waste collection and recycling, and tentative ideas around food and culture form a sector shortlist. Pain’s industry view now offers a more structured way to investigate where an intervention might fit.
Interesting green industries:
How does concern become action?
Personal Sustainability Assistant
A title-only concept shifts the scale from a world map to help for an individual. It records the idea of an assistant; the surviving note does not describe a built product or a tested service.
Personal Sustainability Assistant
It took years for people to realize design makes money The same is happening now to sustainability
This note brings economic value into the sustainability question. Pain now treats value created, buyer willingness to pay and the cost of an intervention as separate questions to investigate.
Sustainability can make money
As a person it’s my core value to be more sustainable but I have no idea how to actually do that I would really appreciate a friend that can guide me
The note expresses a concrete difficulty: motivation exists, but a useful next action is unclear. It brings the problem closer to the kind of specific, lived situation that Pain now tries to describe.
As a person it’s my core value to be more sustainable but I have no…
How would you reward people for their efforts?
The note explores short daily commitments, tracking time, and using AI to suggest actions from cleanup reports. It asks how effort can become a repeatable practice. These are exploratory ideas, with no outcome recorded here.
Commit 10 min per day to sustainability
Where could I help most?
Which one could I help the most?
The proposed survey of sustainability companies connects the landscape of existing solutions to a personal choice of where to contribute. Pain’s founder-fit dimension now makes that question explicit, alongside capability and domain credibility.
Make a survey of sustainability companies and write a report
teach the online shopper to think about product sustainability in terms of probablities
The focus narrows to a particular person and decision: an online shopper evaluating a product. Scoring is proposed as help with uncertainty. Pain carries a related concern into its distinction between evidence, inference and hypotheses.
bring sustainability risk scoring to the consumer
What can we actually test?
How much value can one excellent person create here?
The repository begins with a note about capability, market choice and economic leverage. Opportunity scoring and country/city research follow the same day. The earlier notes give this new project a longer intellectual context.
Leverage and productivity finding
A broad opportunity is useful for deciding where to look. A pain episode is the unit for deciding what to do next.
The method specifies an actor, trigger, work artifacts, mechanism, buyer and narrow intervention. Each proposed experiment needs a success condition and a reason to stop. Broad concern becomes a question that can be tested.
Pain episode method
The economic model should become more specific as evidence improves, while the default UI remains simple.
The project separates scenario assumptions from observed outcomes and connects possible value to workflow coverage, intervention success and actual use. The next step in the record is evidence from real work and paid experiments.
Task-level economic scenario model
The recurring question now has a research method: find a specific pain, inspect what happens, test a small intervention, and record what changes. Future entries can preserve both useful results and ideas that did not hold up.
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