If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?
Its the 14th century and you've had no time to prepare, after you're done reading this post you are snapped. What do you do?
I'd make some fucking soap.
Do you know how to make soap? I'd want to but I'd have no idea how. If it already existed the hard part will be how to make enough money to buy it, as a software dev I'm not sure I'd have any sellable skills
Kind of. All you need is fat and lye. Some experimenting would need to be done but I'm somewhat confident I could figure it out.
And you could make a living selling it. Assuming you can convince people of its benefits.
How to make soap: Mix a fat or oil with a strong base like potassium hydroxide, resulting in an exothermic reaction called saponification.
Where do you get potassium hydroxide from in the 12th century?
Soak wood ash in water.
Oh neat, thanks!
Thanks! at least I have a plan now, if I were to suddenly appear hundreds of years ago, I'll probably just die