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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This morning I am meeting with the principal at our kids’ elementary school. I am hoping to convince him that touch typing is more important for the kids to learn than good hand writing. When I look at my total output these days, a tiny fraction of it involves pen and paper. But I do write a lot every day on a computer keyboard.
I find that writing blog posts, answering emails, putting together presentations (and most of all coding) all benefit greatly from my ability to touch type. I did not learn it in school in Germany, but lucked out when I came to the States and had my host family there suggest that it would be a useful skill (I learned on an IBM Correcting Selectric type writer, the one with the ball head).
It is of course conceivable that keyboard input too will become antiquated. I grant that possibility, but until then, touch typing is amazingly useful. There are now a number of free learning to type programs online. The one that looks best is TypingWeb, although I would love to find one that was more like a video game.
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This morning I am meeting with the principal at our kids’ elementary school. I am hoping to convince him that touch typing is more important for the kids to learn than good hand writing. When I look at my total output these days, a tiny fraction of it involves pen and paper. But I do write a lot every day on a computer keyboard.
I find that writing blog posts, answering emails, putting together presentations (and most of all coding) all benefit greatly from my ability to touch type. I did not learn it in school in Germany, but lucked out when I came to the States and had my host family there suggest that it would be a useful skill (I learned on an IBM Correcting Selectric type writer, the one with the ball head).
It is of course conceivable that keyboard input too will become antiquated. I grant that possibility, but until then, touch typing is amazingly useful. There are now a number of free learning to type programs online. The one that looks best is TypingWeb, although I would love to find one that was more like a video game.
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