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An AI winter

All of us in the tech industry are working in some form toward a spring of automation and AI, but mostly unaware of the inevitable winter that could precede it, or at worst be its ultimate conclusion.

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In 4–8 years there will be a populist politician that will point the finger at the Tech Industry as enemy number one. In a way, Trump already has. This person will yield a backlash a...
The Coming Tech Backlash
Ross Mayfield
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I’d go further and predict that it will be a wave of populist regimes and civil unrest that will engulf most of the first world, and only then a working balance between tech/automation and humanity will start to take shape.

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Homejoy post-mortem

Christina at Backchannel wrote a lengthy, well-researched post on the real reasons why Homejoy failed, if you have 15 mins I encourage you to read the whole post but in case you don’t, you can go over my highlights that I’ve copied/pasted here.

Homejoy was grappling…
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Design thoughts on a Yogurt cup

This may sound ridiculous but this post is about a design flaw that I noticed recently with my…

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Thoughts on the Theranos witch-hunt

For the uninitiated, the media-darling Theranos and her founder Elizabeth Holmes have been under…

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Beware the bullshit headlines

Basically any piece with a title of the following form:

  1. How
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Content: let it come to you

This post has been repurposed from an email I sent to Habib Haddad after a chat we recently had about the same topic.

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Interstellar > The Martian

Because:

  • Matthew Mcconaughey > Matt Damon
  • Evil Matt Damon >…
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Assuming the worst in product design

Last week I took part in Wamda MEMakers GE Venture Sprint, which brought some startups with…

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