Philosophy Mondays: Human-AI Collaboration
Today's Philosophy Monday is an important interlude. I want to reveal that I have not been writing the posts in this series entirely by myself. Instead I have been working with Claude, not just for the graphic illustrations, but also for the text. My method has been to write a rough draft and then ask Claude for improvement suggestions. I will expand this collaboration to other intelligences going forward, including open source models such as Llama and DeepSeek. I will also explore other moda...
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Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?
One thing that keeps surprising me is how quite a few people see absolutely nothing redeeming in web3 (née crypto). Maybe this is their genuine belief. Maybe it is a reaction to the extreme boosterism of some proponents who present web3 as bringing about a libertarian nirvana. From early on I have tried to provide a more rounded perspective, pointing to both the good and the bad that can come from it as in my talks at the Blockstack Summits. Today, however, I want to attempt to provide a coge...
Philosophy Mondays: Human-AI Collaboration
Today's Philosophy Monday is an important interlude. I want to reveal that I have not been writing the posts in this series entirely by myself. Instead I have been working with Claude, not just for the graphic illustrations, but also for the text. My method has been to write a rough draft and then ask Claude for improvement suggestions. I will expand this collaboration to other intelligences going forward, including open source models such as Llama and DeepSeek. I will also explore other moda...
Intent-based Collaboration Environments
AI Native IDEs for Code, Engineering, Science
Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?
One thing that keeps surprising me is how quite a few people see absolutely nothing redeeming in web3 (née crypto). Maybe this is their genuine belief. Maybe it is a reaction to the extreme boosterism of some proponents who present web3 as bringing about a libertarian nirvana. From early on I have tried to provide a more rounded perspective, pointing to both the good and the bad that can come from it as in my talks at the Blockstack Summits. Today, however, I want to attempt to provide a coge...
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-Data transfer. Since I just went through a data migration just a few weeks ago, I was lazy and thought I’d roll the dice and try Apple’s Migration Assistant. Appls, data, everything. Guess what? It just worked. The only thing that didn’t work was the printer drivers for my office but that was easy enough
Quite the contrast with my experience setting up Vista this morning on my mother-in-law’s brand new HP. Just to get everything set up was a 2.5 hour process not including any data transfer from an old machine. Just activating and updating antivirus took almost half an hour between sorting through the various security warnings between Vista, Norton (pre-installed) and some extra HP custom piece of software.
All of this begs an important question. Is it possible to build a great consumer product when you don’t control the experience? I am increasingly believing that the answer is NO. Jobs’s unwillingness to liberate the OS from the hardware was the downfall of Apple the first time round, but now it may well be its biggest asset.
-Data transfer. Since I just went through a data migration just a few weeks ago, I was lazy and thought I’d roll the dice and try Apple’s Migration Assistant. Appls, data, everything. Guess what? It just worked. The only thing that didn’t work was the printer drivers for my office but that was easy enough
Quite the contrast with my experience setting up Vista this morning on my mother-in-law’s brand new HP. Just to get everything set up was a 2.5 hour process not including any data transfer from an old machine. Just activating and updating antivirus took almost half an hour between sorting through the various security warnings between Vista, Norton (pre-installed) and some extra HP custom piece of software.
All of this begs an important question. Is it possible to build a great consumer product when you don’t control the experience? I am increasingly believing that the answer is NO. Jobs’s unwillingness to liberate the OS from the hardware was the downfall of Apple the first time round, but now it may well be its biggest asset.
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