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I wrote a book: Read Write Own I believe blockchains and the software movement around them – typically called crypto or web3 – provide the…
In his classic 2008 essay “1000 True Fans,” Kevin Kelly predicted that the internet would transform the economics of creative activities: To…
New technologies enable activities that fall into one of two categories: 1) doing things you could already do but can now do better because…
There are broadly two adoption paths for new computing technologies: inside-out and outside-in. Inside-out technologies are pioneered by…
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How a Chinese AI lab spun out of a hedge fund shook up the entire tech industry.
Patrick interviews me; the energy transition; Americans die young; family and fertility; educating the poor; AI and growth
A longer and more chaotic follow-up conversation in which Andrew and I dive into the weeds of our differing approaches to solving coordination.
The Chinese app has just “blown the roof off” and “shifted the power dynamics.”
Soundtrack: The Hives — Hate To Say I Told You So In the last week or so, but especially over the weekend, the entire generative AI industry has been thrown into chaos. This won’t be a lengthy, technical write-up — although there will be some inevitable technical complexities,
