From the moment we're born, we operate in a field of minds. We come into contact with minds, communicate with minds, change minds, and have our minds changed by theirs. Contact, impression, communication: it all happens so regularly and so ceaselessly we never notice it until it disappears

This essay came into form over several months, beginning with 'when it changed', moving on to what it all means, and, finally, what is to be done... Gradually, then Suddenly The day I met Vernor Vinge we went to dinner in the company of my good friend David

Hello, folks. It's been a while. This 'monthly' newsletter took a break late last year, and just sort of never came back. It never will. 'The Good Thing' was a great way to keep people connected to interesting things. It's no longer

Three wonderful things to read this week Eight Software Markets that AI Will Transform Differently A well-considered and very welcome read: Software is produced in at least eight distinct markets, each with different constraints, different demand elasticities, and different relationships to the factors that AI coding actually changes. Predicting

Two insightful essays, and a fun place to play... Horses  An interesting analogy - written by an employee at AI powerhouse Anthropic - comparing the improvement in the automobile at the start of the 20th century, versus the number of horses, then mapping this onto human labor versus AI, in the mid-

Two great articles, one toy that goes BOING! How Math Broke Media by Doug Shapiro A really interesting take on how changes in both distribution (streaming) and production (AI) have broken models describing what media is, how it works, how it earns, etc... ...that is poised to change the underlying

'Digital feudalism' has come to mind for me because it was written by as one of the possible features and in fact, the future of least resistance that we're heading toward, in the book The Last Economy by Emad Mostaque. The knee-jerk reaction is that