Just two housekeeping things, for today:
1. I’ll be in Hong Kong the last week of January. See the “World Tour” pinned thread for details, I might be able to squeeze in a meetup or two while I’m in town. It’ll really be a busy few days with quite a bit going on, though hopefully I’ll get to see a few of you.
2. The new minimum student age. BackTo20/20 is my way to continue to refine my method for vision improvement. Getting a large, diverse group of students from all walks of life, various dispositions and priorities, all doing a program with minimal guidance. Eventually I hope that it will work so well, honed by years of progress reports and feedback, that I’ll be able to hand it to optometrists to use with their clients in person, in their office. For that it will have to be very solid, not create a lot of questions and headaches. Once it’s at that point, holistic myopia control will be able to spread through the world with minimal barrier of entry.
That’s the current raison d’être for BackTo20/20, and that’s why I have exactly zero ambition to try to get hundreds of students per month on it. I want just enough to see trends and flaws, and continue to effectively tweak the approach.
One of the really consistent problems here that I noticed, have one common denominator: Age. The failure rate of average improvement (1 diopter per year) drop to single digit percentages once I remove the sub 25 age category.
Exceptions are always possible, I do gladly read carefully worded and insightful e-mails.
Cheers!
-Jake
