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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… and I sure hope that it ends differently this time! What am I talking about? I am talking about the eerie parallels between 2000 and 2008. I remember attending some of the biggest startup / Internet conferences just at the time as the market started to implode. Now here I am at Web 2.0 Expo with thousands of people while Wall Street is melting down. Yesterday was a particularly weird reminder. First Fred played a clip in his keynote of Jason Calacanis exhorting B-school students to drop out and start a company at the height of the first bubble. Then just three keynotes later Gary Vaynerchuk was scolding folks to stop watching ‘Lost’ instead of starting a business. Clearly there are differences _ then it was a meltdown of the big names on the net, this time it is the financial sector. Jason’s argument was about following the money, Hart’s about following your passion. Still there is a scary sense of deja vu.
… and I sure hope that it ends differently this time! What am I talking about? I am talking about the eerie parallels between 2000 and 2008. I remember attending some of the biggest startup / Internet conferences just at the time as the market started to implode. Now here I am at Web 2.0 Expo with thousands of people while Wall Street is melting down. Yesterday was a particularly weird reminder. First Fred played a clip in his keynote of Jason Calacanis exhorting B-school students to drop out and start a company at the height of the first bubble. Then just three keynotes later Gary Vaynerchuk was scolding folks to stop watching ‘Lost’ instead of starting a business. Clearly there are differences _ then it was a meltdown of the big names on the net, this time it is the financial sector. Jason’s argument was about following the money, Hart’s about following your passion. Still there is a scary sense of deja vu.
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