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...
Heading towards the knowledge age
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...
Heading towards the knowledge age
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I love what I do as a VC at USV. Being involved with many different companies each with unique opportunities and challenges is absolutely amazing. But it does mean that I have very little time to build things myself. So this weekend for Father’s day Susan and the kids gave me the best present ever: a full day of building stuff! Susan has an idea for a new service and I worked on an alpha version.
There are three things I really love about developing software. First, more easily than with anything else (even skiing and sailing), I can achieve flow state and time literally seems suspended. Second, there is a concrete and tangible result of the activity for everyone to look at and – even better – interact with. Third, all along the way you get to solve little mini puzzles all wrapped up into the large puzzle of how the pieces fit together (e.g. proper hashing of passwords using bcrypt).
Of course we also packed in some more traditional activities, including breakfast with Sunday NY Times in bed and a BBQ. All in all the perfect day!
I love what I do as a VC at USV. Being involved with many different companies each with unique opportunities and challenges is absolutely amazing. But it does mean that I have very little time to build things myself. So this weekend for Father’s day Susan and the kids gave me the best present ever: a full day of building stuff! Susan has an idea for a new service and I worked on an alpha version.
There are three things I really love about developing software. First, more easily than with anything else (even skiing and sailing), I can achieve flow state and time literally seems suspended. Second, there is a concrete and tangible result of the activity for everyone to look at and – even better – interact with. Third, all along the way you get to solve little mini puzzles all wrapped up into the large puzzle of how the pieces fit together (e.g. proper hashing of passwords using bcrypt).
Of course we also packed in some more traditional activities, including breakfast with Sunday NY Times in bed and a BBQ. All in all the perfect day!
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