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...
Yesterday I tweeted out this fascinating chart about what has happened to newspaper advertising revenues:
The chart comes from this blog post by a professor named Mark Perry. In the comments to the post there is a brief discussion that points to the shift away in classifieds to Craigslist and other outlets as a primary reason.
I went to be shortly after tweeting that and couldn’t help but think about which industries are up next for that level of disruption. I believe a chart showing textbook revenues might wind up looking not all that dissimilar. I also believe that TV advertising revenues are probably going to decline meaningfully as that advertising gets switched to online video.
There are two mechanisms at work that are likely to produce similar charts for many more industries to come that are illustrated by these previous two examples. First, a shift from offline to online and second a replacement of paid by free. Together these form an incredible one-two punch and managers in many existing businesses would do well to print out the above chart and put it in front of them on their desks as a potent reminder of what is coming.
Yesterday I tweeted out this fascinating chart about what has happened to newspaper advertising revenues:
The chart comes from this blog post by a professor named Mark Perry. In the comments to the post there is a brief discussion that points to the shift away in classifieds to Craigslist and other outlets as a primary reason.
I went to be shortly after tweeting that and couldn’t help but think about which industries are up next for that level of disruption. I believe a chart showing textbook revenues might wind up looking not all that dissimilar. I also believe that TV advertising revenues are probably going to decline meaningfully as that advertising gets switched to online video.
There are two mechanisms at work that are likely to produce similar charts for many more industries to come that are illustrated by these previous two examples. First, a shift from offline to online and second a replacement of paid by free. Together these form an incredible one-two punch and managers in many existing businesses would do well to print out the above chart and put it in front of them on their desks as a potent reminder of what is coming.
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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