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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A few months ago we invested in Toronto-based Wattpad. In introducing the investment, I wrote the following paragraph on the Union Square Ventures blog:
Wattpad is a community for telling and reading stories. Collectively, Wattpad users last quarter spent an amazing 2 billion minutes writing and reading stories on Wattpad. During that time, nearly three quarter million new stories or parts of stories were uploaded and writers received almost five million comments. To learn more about how Wattpad works you may want to watch this explanatory video.
Since then Wattpad has moved into a new office and celebrated its 5th birthday. Yes – Wattpad isn’t some kind of overnight success that came out of nowhere. Instead, Allen, Ivan and the team have facilitated the growth of the Wattpad community since 2006. They have published this infographic to show everything that has changed:
But this is just the beginning. The team at Wattpad is working on many different initiatives to enhance how stories are created, discovered, read, commented upon, shared and more! To do all of this they are looking for great engineers. If this is for you, please apply and if there is someone you know who would be perfect to work on Wattpad, please point them over there.
A few months ago we invested in Toronto-based Wattpad. In introducing the investment, I wrote the following paragraph on the Union Square Ventures blog:
Wattpad is a community for telling and reading stories. Collectively, Wattpad users last quarter spent an amazing 2 billion minutes writing and reading stories on Wattpad. During that time, nearly three quarter million new stories or parts of stories were uploaded and writers received almost five million comments. To learn more about how Wattpad works you may want to watch this explanatory video.
Since then Wattpad has moved into a new office and celebrated its 5th birthday. Yes – Wattpad isn’t some kind of overnight success that came out of nowhere. Instead, Allen, Ivan and the team have facilitated the growth of the Wattpad community since 2006. They have published this infographic to show everything that has changed:
But this is just the beginning. The team at Wattpad is working on many different initiatives to enhance how stories are created, discovered, read, commented upon, shared and more! To do all of this they are looking for great engineers. If this is for you, please apply and if there is someone you know who would be perfect to work on Wattpad, please point them over there.
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