Solar Flare
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29 September 2025
On humane microblogging architecture
Great article by Andalib Samandari– a case study on Humane Tech values applied to microblogging platforms like X, Instagram, Bluesky, Mastodon, etc. How well do these platforms respect users’ well-being, making users feel cared for, present, fulfilled, and connected?
While there’s a lot of attention today on the negative effects of social media on well-being of individuals and society,...
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29 September 2025
Data Commons MCP Server
Google just announced the Data Commons MCP Server. This is huge for enriching the usefulness of agents and LLMs. And it points to a larger movement towards agentic data providers.
My vision is that there will be a huge number of data resources available for agents to draw from in the relatively near future. It’s a logical progression of the...
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29 June 2025
The Power of Agents
This illustrates the sheer power of agents. It’s just the tip of the iceberg. Get your popcorn, folks, we’re gonna have one helluva show tonight. 🍿🤩📽️
$36M ARR. 45 days. 24 people. All organic.
Genspark is the fastest-growing Lean AI company we’ve ever seen — and officially joins the Lean AI Leaderboard in the top...
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29 May 2025
AI is Not Your Friend
AI is not your friend. There’s big trend in the making to not only interact with AI in more human ways, but to consider these tools as something like a human. While I personally believe (but it remains to be seen) that these technologies can likely one day elevate to the level of sentience, we need to be really careful...
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29 May 2025
Agentic Workflows for VCs
Great case study here on practical process improvements using agentic workflows. Also just an amazing set of acronyms for their “robot” names… that takes real skill 😁
We can now give more founders feedback faster. We can support more startups in our portfolio. We can help startups adopt AI-first company building. When I explain this...
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11 December 2024
AIs can scheme? Of course, they can.
In a recent episode of the Cognitive Revolution podcast, @nathanlabenz interviewed Research Scientist @alexandermeinke with Apollo Research about their evaluation of today’s most capable LLMs on their capacity (and willingness) to intentionally scheme and deceive their users.
It turns out that recent models, particularly those with Chain of Thought reasoning capabilities, are both adept at and...
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31 October 2015
Poor Indoor Air Quality Linked To Workers' Low Cognitive Function
Huffington Post article: Poor Indoor Air Quality Linked To Workers’ Low Cognitive Function
“When lowered CO2 levels were coupled with lower pollutants in buildings, cognitive scores were a whopping 101 percent higher than in conventional buildings.”
This includes lowering indoor VOC pollutants from materials such as fire retardants, paints...
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06 June 2015
How Society Will Be Transformed By CryptoEconomics
Medium post: How Society Will Be Transformed By CryptoEconomics
Noah Thorp paints a remarkably deep and thorough picture of the emerging technological landscape with regards to economics, corporations, and personal data. You’ve read the singularity sci-fi (Accelerando). Here are the nuts and bolts of how it will come to be. Great changes...
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02 October 2013
'Indie Web' Group Wants To Take Back The Internet
Huffington Post Live article: ‘Indie Web’ Group Wants To Take Back The Internet
Enlightentech crew talking to Huffington Post about data freedom, indieweb, etc. Awesome interview!
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22 August 2013
Meet the Hackers Who Want to Jailbreak the Internet
Wired Business article: Meet the Hackers Who Want to Jailbreak the Internet
My good friend and collaborator on Enlightened Structure projects, Harlan Wood, was featured in this article after our visit to Indie Web Camp in Portland this summer (and an honorable mention of yours truly). This year’s IWC...