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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Today we will be filing our quarterly reports with the New York City Department of Education. In addition to the Individualized Home Instruction Plan (or IHIP), quarterly reports are one of the legal requirements for homeschooling in New York. The report that we actually send in to the DOE is the minimal one possible by law – essentially an affirmation that the children are progressing well. But for ourselves and for the kids we pull together a detailed report from all their tutors.
So just like when I wrote about the IHIP I want to again suggest that there is a startup opportunity here. Tracking one’s learning progress across many different classes, books, online courses, offline activities is quite hard. And even though we use modern tools such as Google docs we are essentially just stringing together a bunch of unstructured prose.
I don’t know what the right format for all of this would be and it probably shouldn’t be completely structured. But what I have in mind is a system that lets students (and teachers) create plans for what to learn and then track their progress and revise the plans. As I am writing this, I am beginning to think that it could be something similar to what companies are looking for to do OKR style management. If you have any suggestions, please let me know.
Today we will be filing our quarterly reports with the New York City Department of Education. In addition to the Individualized Home Instruction Plan (or IHIP), quarterly reports are one of the legal requirements for homeschooling in New York. The report that we actually send in to the DOE is the minimal one possible by law – essentially an affirmation that the children are progressing well. But for ourselves and for the kids we pull together a detailed report from all their tutors.
So just like when I wrote about the IHIP I want to again suggest that there is a startup opportunity here. Tracking one’s learning progress across many different classes, books, online courses, offline activities is quite hard. And even though we use modern tools such as Google docs we are essentially just stringing together a bunch of unstructured prose.
I don’t know what the right format for all of this would be and it probably shouldn’t be completely structured. But what I have in mind is a system that lets students (and teachers) create plans for what to learn and then track their progress and revise the plans. As I am writing this, I am beginning to think that it could be something similar to what companies are looking for to do OKR style management. If you have any suggestions, please let me know.
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