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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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Share Dialog
First time entrepreneurs who are just getting going frequently ask me about how to find angel investors. I usually tell them about my theory of “concentric circles” of angel investors.
The innermost circle are people who know you and love you and will give you money no matter what (even if you were opening an ice cream store on the South Pole). These are the friends and family angel investors.
The next circle out are people who care deeply about the thing itself that you are doing. So if you are starting an online fashion company this might be a successful fashion designer.
The circle beyond that are professional angels/super angels.
And finally the circle beyond that is everyone else.
The gist of my theory is that each time you go further out from one circle to the next it gets 10x harder to convince someone to give you money. I am beginning to think though that there are now so many professional or at least semi-professional angels that maybe the second and third circle out should be in different order.
First time entrepreneurs who are just getting going frequently ask me about how to find angel investors. I usually tell them about my theory of “concentric circles” of angel investors.
The innermost circle are people who know you and love you and will give you money no matter what (even if you were opening an ice cream store on the South Pole). These are the friends and family angel investors.
The next circle out are people who care deeply about the thing itself that you are doing. So if you are starting an online fashion company this might be a successful fashion designer.
The circle beyond that are professional angels/super angels.
And finally the circle beyond that is everyone else.
The gist of my theory is that each time you go further out from one circle to the next it gets 10x harder to convince someone to give you money. I am beginning to think though that there are now so many professional or at least semi-professional angels that maybe the second and third circle out should be in different order.
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