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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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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As I am getting ready to go to SXSW and thus to a different timezone I thought I would share how I handle timezones and calendaring (this was in part prompted by a tweet from Andrew Parker the other day about this issue).
My system is very simple: I put everything into the calendar at the exact time it will occur in whatever timezone I will be in that day. So if an event is in Austin at 2pm, I will put it into my calendar as 2pm. When I will get to Austin tomorrow, I will change my phone’s date/time from network to manual and adjust it by 1 hour. I always leave the phone’s timezone itself on Eastern as that’s where I spend most of my time.
The reason for this approach is that whenever I have tried to actually use timezones it has resulted in spectacular scheduling fails due to the software (on the phone or in the cloud) trying to do some “magic” to get everything into the right place. After a couple of missed meetings I stopped trying and moved to my current system.
Would love to hear if anyone has gotten timezones to work properly for them and if so on what combination of phone, local app and cloud sync.
As I am getting ready to go to SXSW and thus to a different timezone I thought I would share how I handle timezones and calendaring (this was in part prompted by a tweet from Andrew Parker the other day about this issue).
My system is very simple: I put everything into the calendar at the exact time it will occur in whatever timezone I will be in that day. So if an event is in Austin at 2pm, I will put it into my calendar as 2pm. When I will get to Austin tomorrow, I will change my phone’s date/time from network to manual and adjust it by 1 hour. I always leave the phone’s timezone itself on Eastern as that’s where I spend most of my time.
The reason for this approach is that whenever I have tried to actually use timezones it has resulted in spectacular scheduling fails due to the software (on the phone or in the cloud) trying to do some “magic” to get everything into the right place. After a couple of missed meetings I stopped trying and moved to my current system.
Would love to hear if anyone has gotten timezones to work properly for them and if so on what combination of phone, local app and cloud sync.
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