It's strange whenever I think of my company's product in such terms, since my product doesn't reduce global warming, improve international relations, or anything like that. However, it DOES accomplish the much more modest goal of facilitating an aspect of time management (http://www.domador.net/two-click-reminder). I did set out with the goal of making people's lives easier when I developed this program, and I hope that's what it accomplishes, even in a marginal way. I definitely want my programs to improve lives. I shudder at the thought of ever running or working for a company with an extremely selfish motivation, a company obsessed with its own benefit and indifferent to the effect its actions have on the rest of society.
I am just getting started, and it's too early to tell if my product is having beneficial side effects. I haven't gotten much feedback yet.
It's strange whenever I think of my company's product in such terms, since my product doesn't reduce global warming, improve international relations, or anything like that. However, it DOES accomplish the much more modest goal of facilitating an aspect of time management (http://www.domador.net/two-click-reminder). I did set out with the goal of making people's lives easier when I developed this program, and I hope that's what it accomplishes, even in a marginal way. I definitely want my programs to improve lives. I shudder at the thought of ever running or working for a company with an extremely selfish motivation, a company obsessed with its own benefit and indifferent to the effect its actions have on the rest of society.
I am just getting started, and it's too early to tell if my product is having beneficial side effects. I haven't gotten much feedback yet.