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’s my birthday and I am turning 46. I quickly searched Continuations (via gawk.it) and it appears that I last blogged about my birthday three years ago. I am happy to report that not much has changed. Despite a fairly frenetic work pace over the intervening time with a lot of travel (and correspondingly less hair) I am lucky to be healthy and feeling full of energy.
There is the occasional reminder though that my body is no longer thirty. And that got me thinking about something somewhat surprising. We seem to learn awfully little in school about how to take care of our own bodies Admittedly it’s a long time ago that I was in school and it was in Germany. I do recall learning how a muscle works but nothing about which muscles to stretch. Similarly all about how food is absorbed but very little about what that means for diet. Ditto for sleep, the brain, etc.
Given that our body is an amazingly complex machine, it would seem that much more of school should be taken up with becoming a competent owner and operator of that machine. Maybe O'Reilly should publish: Your Body, the Missing Manual (although the subtitle of that series won’t be entirely applicable: “the book that should have been in the box” – at least not yet).
PS For friends and family - no presents please - here is my Donor’s Choose giving page
Today’s my birthday and I am turning 46. I quickly searched Continuations (via gawk.it) and it appears that I last blogged about my birthday three years ago. I am happy to report that not much has changed. Despite a fairly frenetic work pace over the intervening time with a lot of travel (and correspondingly less hair) I am lucky to be healthy and feeling full of energy.
There is the occasional reminder though that my body is no longer thirty. And that got me thinking about something somewhat surprising. We seem to learn awfully little in school about how to take care of our own bodies Admittedly it’s a long time ago that I was in school and it was in Germany. I do recall learning how a muscle works but nothing about which muscles to stretch. Similarly all about how food is absorbed but very little about what that means for diet. Ditto for sleep, the brain, etc.
Given that our body is an amazingly complex machine, it would seem that much more of school should be taken up with becoming a competent owner and operator of that machine. Maybe O'Reilly should publish: Your Body, the Missing Manual (although the subtitle of that series won’t be entirely applicable: “the book that should have been in the box” – at least not yet).
PS For friends and family - no presents please - here is my Donor’s Choose giving page
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