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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The fight over Yahoo will have many unfortunate side effects if any of the combination outcomes currently being considered come about. How did we get here? Back when Terry Semel was first announced as the new CEO, I thought it was a huge mistake (wish I had started to blog a long time ago so that I could now link to that). My reasoning was that conceiving of Yahoo in terms of media first rather than technology first was missing the opportunity. That is the only way to create a mass media opprtunity was through flawless technological execution. But then Semel surprised me with what I thought were two clever acquisitions to jumpstart Yahoo’s own search (Inktomi) and advertising (Overture). Turns out though that apparently instead of considering these as jumpstarts and aggressively pushing the integration and further development or replacement of these technologies that was pretty much it. So Yahoo became a house built on a slapped together and crumbling foundation. Combining Yahoo with AOL or MSFT/NWS would compound the errors of the past, not solve them. It is probably too late but the healthiest outcome for the Internet at large would be an independent Yahoo.
The fight over Yahoo will have many unfortunate side effects if any of the combination outcomes currently being considered come about. How did we get here? Back when Terry Semel was first announced as the new CEO, I thought it was a huge mistake (wish I had started to blog a long time ago so that I could now link to that). My reasoning was that conceiving of Yahoo in terms of media first rather than technology first was missing the opportunity. That is the only way to create a mass media opprtunity was through flawless technological execution. But then Semel surprised me with what I thought were two clever acquisitions to jumpstart Yahoo’s own search (Inktomi) and advertising (Overture). Turns out though that apparently instead of considering these as jumpstarts and aggressively pushing the integration and further development or replacement of these technologies that was pretty much it. So Yahoo became a house built on a slapped together and crumbling foundation. Combining Yahoo with AOL or MSFT/NWS would compound the errors of the past, not solve them. It is probably too late but the healthiest outcome for the Internet at large would be an independent Yahoo.
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