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Loona showed up
DJ set from a couple of months ago, which coincided with the arrival of a personal robot. Setlist:
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Down a rabbithole: The Suez Canal
Some thoughts on how waterways, replaceable parts, and geopolitics have made us rely on a Just In Time world. Part of an occasional series
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First, we had suspects
First, you had a suspect; then you collected data Fifty years ago, if you worked for law enforcement, you started with a crime. You used information from that crime to make a list of possible suspects. And then you looked into their life. Maybe you did this with publicly accessible information, by digging through their […]
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The perils of local maxima
Preamble: It’s been nearly two years since I wrote something here. In that time, I’ve worked with a dozen or so big public companies trying to understand how to balance keep-the-lights-on, milk-the-cash-cow marketing with the pursuit of disruptive innovations. I’m trying to assemble these thoughts into something—maybe a book, maybe an online course, maybe a […]
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On chat as interface
Musings on the (for now) strange world of chat, where the interfaces are untestable, every use leaves a logfile, each interaction is a survey, and we talk with our cars and bank accounts.
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Inbox is the Trojan Horse for your personal AI
Google’s Mail products are a Trojan Horse with which the company is turning “use the Internet” into “talk with an AI.”
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Unlocking our future past
In a few years, algorithms will be able to describe video content as well as humans can. Unlocking the pent up information in petabytes of video will have wide-ranging impacts on society.
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Dear Canada: Stop apologizing
It’s time to stop writing press releases and start hacking markets. Because the world’s best startups have a dirty secret: they’re all a little bit evil.
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This trifecta drives the next decade of tech
Big data, smart agents, and new interfaces are cool on their own. But together, they’re a virtuous cycle that shows what the next decade of tech looks like.
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Can we fix representation?
Representative government is broken. But now we’re all connected, maybe syndicates can fix it?
Got any book recommendations?