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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I am excited about Foursquare’s upcoming releases of two apps to unbundle social features from discovery features. You can read a detailed story about it over on the Verge reported by Ben Popper. Ben covers a lot of different angles. What’s worth emphasizing is how much courage it takes for a team to tackle such a fundamental product change. Too many companies when they have reached a certain scale of adoption simply can’t work up the courage to make big changes. Foursquare previously had taken a risk with its 5.0 release which ultimately did not go well and took several iterations to fix. So with that history in mind it was an especially big step to commit to the split. Kudos to Dennis and the team.
P.S. If you want to be notified of the impending launch of Swarm (the location sharing app) you can sign up.
I am excited about Foursquare’s upcoming releases of two apps to unbundle social features from discovery features. You can read a detailed story about it over on the Verge reported by Ben Popper. Ben covers a lot of different angles. What’s worth emphasizing is how much courage it takes for a team to tackle such a fundamental product change. Too many companies when they have reached a certain scale of adoption simply can’t work up the courage to make big changes. Foursquare previously had taken a risk with its 5.0 release which ultimately did not go well and took several iterations to fix. So with that history in mind it was an especially big step to commit to the split. Kudos to Dennis and the team.
P.S. If you want to be notified of the impending launch of Swarm (the location sharing app) you can sign up.
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