: A personal meditation on 50 years of Apple The first computer I ever used was an Apple ][+, encountered in a dark corner of my elementary …
: Claude Cowork and the DESQview phase of AI Claude Cowork represents a significant advancement in making AI accessible to non-technical users, …
: Telepath: building a new kind of computer So, we made a thing: Let’s back up: for as long as I can remember, I’ve been obsessed with …
: The future is gradually getting a little better.
: Emergence is all you need I recently spent a couple of weeks building-out a LLM-driven product concept (which I’ll be writing …
: 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 …
: Picked up a Stadler Made outdoor wood-fired pizza oven. Made out of naturally-weathering corten …
: AI is an invasive species Let’s talk about carp. I ran across this video from Tom Scott about invasive Asian carp. What …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Steve Jobs, Google Maps, and the digital afterlife Because Google Maps (like other mapping services) utilizes imaging data from multiple sources …
: Remembering how I got here The first time I saw a computer – an Apple ][+ in my elementary school’s library. The first time I …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Initiating Stage 2 So the news is out: we’ve raised our first round of funding for BlockChalk. It turns out that today …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …