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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Google has finally officially launched their long rumored venture fund. Corporate venture funds have a somewhat spotty history and it will be interesting to see how the google team approaches this. My partner Brad started in Venture Capital with AT&T ventures, which was set up like a real independent fund with a GP/LP structure. That is clearly the way to do it if you want to optimize for returns. The description of Google Ventures given by the principals and on the Google Ventures site makes it appear that they too are focusing on backing innovative startups and de-emphasizing any strategic value for google. It will be interesting to see what entrepreneurs think of that and how it plays out in practice. For someone like Intel Capital there have been a lot of things to fund (e.g. in software or web services) that have a low likelihood of a future conflict between the fund’s sponsor and the startup. Given the breadth of google’s activities (and ambition?) that may be a bit harder. In any case, I am happy to see another source of funding for startups, especially at a time when some other funds are retrenching, and look forward to meeting the Google Ventures team.
Google has finally officially launched their long rumored venture fund. Corporate venture funds have a somewhat spotty history and it will be interesting to see how the google team approaches this. My partner Brad started in Venture Capital with AT&T ventures, which was set up like a real independent fund with a GP/LP structure. That is clearly the way to do it if you want to optimize for returns. The description of Google Ventures given by the principals and on the Google Ventures site makes it appear that they too are focusing on backing innovative startups and de-emphasizing any strategic value for google. It will be interesting to see what entrepreneurs think of that and how it plays out in practice. For someone like Intel Capital there have been a lot of things to fund (e.g. in software or web services) that have a low likelihood of a future conflict between the fund’s sponsor and the startup. Given the breadth of google’s activities (and ambition?) that may be a bit harder. In any case, I am happy to see another source of funding for startups, especially at a time when some other funds are retrenching, and look forward to meeting the Google Ventures team.
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