How will AI change the way we do business? Why reading and posting business posts becomes a waste of time and effort. How do we reinvent our creativity?
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How will AI change the way we do business? Why reading and posting business posts becomes a waste of time and effort. How do we reinvent our creativity?
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Knowledge is the most important resource. If you ban innovation you stop progress because the learning stops and that’s the easiest way to add odds to the existential risk category. If errors are not allowed we cannot learn and progress.
You cannot dictate innovation or buy it with money no matter how much politicians like to make you believe so.
Expecting to create an AGI without first understanding in detail how it works is like expecting skyscrapers to learn to fly if we build them tall enough.
David Deutsch
I was in a live TV discussion about this topic yesterday. Below you can watch selected clips and the last one is the full version.
Walter Isaacson’s book about Elon Musk is full of stories that paint a picture of a billionaire who has a lot at stake but can also cause havoc for a large number of people.
While I was reading the book, I made my remarks, notions and insights in a format where you can check the content bite-sized either by listening or by reading.
You can also join the conversion so consider my notes just as an intro to the topic.
Podcasting is dead — long live asynchronous podcasting.
Covid times had everyone online at the same time. It was a golden era of Zoom meetings, Clubhouse and other synchronous platforms.
Now, we are back to the scheduling conflicts and struggles of getting everyone together at the same time.
Often, it’s not even the most efficient way of carrying out meetings, calls, interviews, and many other tasks. It’s expensive to gather everyone together and make them pause everything else when only one person speaks at a time. You cannot speed up or speed-read the conversation to get to the point and save time.
Asynchronous tools change that. They are nothing new. Mail has been around for centuries. Slacks and other communication tools work the same way. Even social media sites like Twitter and Instagram.
For a few days, I have experimented with a new tool called Airchat. It looks a bit like Insta stories at first glance. You could also describe it as an audio Twitter if you consider Twitter as a place to share your ideas.
Airchat is something new. It’s not just copying the old formats in a new shape. It changes the behaviour and opens up new possibilities. I will not give it the disservice of defining it prematurely. The product is still under heavy development.
I will let you experience some of it first-hand. I exported a discussion about Airchat. It starts with a “stitch” from a different discussion that I added to my room and this was the kick-start to the topic. The first segment happened earlier and I was not part of it. The rest happened in my room.
You can have monologues but other people can jump into a discussion with you. It can happen almost simultaneously if the participants happen to be online at the same time but often that’s not the case. You can consider your response and reply when convenient for you.
The end result can be a podcast episode or just a chapter in a longer or ongoing topical debate.
You can listen to the exported segment but I encourage you to visit the web version (go to the ‘airchat’ tag) that allows you to see a better version of the experience. It’s still limited compared to the capabilities of the app version.
PS. For now, I have stopped producing new episodes of my podcasts Talks with Petri and Purpose ‘n Clarity. If you want to get the latest content visit my site’s main page for my social media entries (and profile links).
Twitter has changed. There’s no turning back. Mastodon is not the solution. There are many reasons why something else is needed. Balajis described nicely the defragmentation of the social media space. Last year, I covered some of the other newcomers including Farcaster and Mastodon.
Nostr is over two years old but it started to take off on December ’22 when Jack Dorsey donated 14 BTC to the development of the Nostr ecosystem. Earlier this month, he stated that “nostr is counter-culture today and has the potential to stay that way. The open and wildly decentralized development model keeps it punk.”
The early years of the Internet were full of excitement, discovery and the feeling of rapid progress in the 90s. This same feeling that was also present in the early days of blogging, social media and blockchain is present in nostr today.
Experienced developers with a history in open protocols, freedom of speech and liberty are joining forces in building a public domain decentralised protocol that is very dearly needed today. The excitement is palpable, and not the least for you don’t need anyone’s permission to get started and contribute.
User adoption is still in the early days but the fact that all nostr applications use the same keys (public and private; i.e. your username and password) gives the end users easy switching and testing abilities. Similarly, app developers have an instant user base potential of the entire nostr ecosystem.
It’s early but the potential is larger than just social media. Nostr is a protocol similar to SMTP (email) and HTTP (Web) which makes it unlike the current siloed applications and Web2 (even Web3) solutions where your data and identity is locked away. If you lose it you restart again or go elsewhere.
Nostr is also more resilient against government censorship and suppression. In this aspect, it has similarities to Bitcoin even though it is not based on blockchain technology and does not have any consensus being asynchronous and decentralised in its nature.
There are a lot of free resources but nostr.how is a good starting point.
Many of the clients are easy to use: “The simplest sign-up: type a name and hit go! No phone number or any personal information needed.”, states Iris.to that is built by Martti Malmi who is the second developer to work on Bitcoin after Satoshi Nakamoto.
You can find me on nostr.