2023-09-16: The future is gradually getting a little better.
2023-06-12: Emergence is all you need I recently spent a couple of weeks building-out a LLM-driven product concept (which I’ll be writing …
2023-05-06: Running Vicuna locally: the complete idiot's guide to basically running ChatGPT on your own laptop for free The new Vicuna-13B large language model is a Very Big Deal. A big enough deal to drive one of the …
2023-04-12: Picked up a Stadler Made outdoor wood-fired pizza oven. Made out of naturally-weathering corten …
2023-03-31: AI is an invasive species Let’s talk about carp. I ran across this video from Tom Scott about invasive Asian carp. What …
2013-11-12: Storium is coming to Kickstarter in early 2014 From protagonistlabs: “We’re happy to share some great news: in the next few months we will be …
2013-03-26: We're working with J.C. Hutchins If you haven’t read the “7th Son” series of sci-fi thrillers, you really should. They’re about a …
2013-03-13: Will Hindmarch is our first advisor for Protagonist Labs Today we announced that Will Hindmarch is our first advisor for Protagonist Labs. I’m over the moon …
2011-11-20: Steve Jobs, Google Maps, and the digital afterlife Because Google Maps (like other mapping services) utilizes imaging data from multiple sources …
2011-10-05: Remembering how I got here The first time I saw a computer – an Apple ][+ in my elementary school’s library. The first time I …
2011-04-08: Unlit Social Graphs and the Post-Friend Economy Lawrence Coburn of The Next Web wrote yesterday about “The Unlit Social Graph”. It’s a well-framed …
2010-12-19: We can save del.icio.us, but probably not in the way you think I left Yahoo over two years ago, but prior to that I spent three years running product for …
2010-09-08: Google Instant is an example of how Yahoo could have won in search Today Google launched Google Instant, and make no mistake: this is big. It’s far more than just a …
2010-05-27: Initiating Stage 2 So the news is out: we’ve raised our first round of funding for BlockChalk. It turns out that today …
2010-04-01: My talk from Where 2.0 O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 conference has just wrapped up. I’ve been to my share of conferences …
2010-03-13: SXSW: it's not a war, it's a scouting mission As everyone knows, the focus at South By Southwest this year (at least from a tech perspective) is …
2010-02-22: Don't think you care about privacy? You will... eventually In the tech industry it has almost become embarrassing to voice concerns about erosion of personal …
2010-02-17: Living in the bubble (or, why the future of location is even bigger than you think) Last Friday I attended TechCrunch’s excellent Real Time CrunchUp in San Francisco. Real time web …