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Mar 15, 2020

The Porter’s Five Forces of data

The business strategy of data — Porter’s Five Forces is a great strategic framework. We’ve used it in business strategy for years. If you aren’t familiar, it is a simple framework that helps businesspeople analyze competition within an industry created by Michael Porter. I’ve been fortunate enough to be at lunch with Michael Porter to discuss…

Data

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The porters five forces of data
The porters five forces of data
Data

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Mar 3, 2019

Key AI discussions

What people aren’t talking enough about — Additional notes inspired by Rob May’s article here. Rob and I go way back and this is the type of thing we talk about over beers. I feel obliged to add some notes of my own. I wish I vehemently disagreed on something. That would perhaps make for a more…

Artificial Intelligence

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Key AI discussions
Key AI discussions
Artificial Intelligence

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Published in Towards Data Science

·Jan 28, 2019

On Canonical Companies

Creating universal systems of record — In Information Technology and tech startups, we talk about “systems of record”. It’s a system that is the source for a particular data that may also exist in other systems. That “system or record” is the ultimate source of truth. It’s the canonical record of data. We often talk about…

Blockchain

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On Canonical Companies
On Canonical Companies
Blockchain

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Published in MessagePath

·Nov 24, 2018

Your future coach

AI assistants will evolve into AI coaches as they get smarter — I’ve talked about the 10 principles of Intelligent Agent Design and augmented intelligence and how we were building exoskeletons for the mind. A key callout is that the sci-fi “AI as a sentient being” is far out in the future. And, that currently what we’re seeing is that the most…

Artificial Intelligence

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Your future AI coach
Your future AI coach
Artificial Intelligence

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Published in MessagePath

·Aug 23, 2018

Augmented Intelligence: Building exoskeletons for the mind

And, why the world needs augmented communication — When we think about uses for artificial intelligence and automation, we often think forward to super-intelligent machines replacing humans. I think that’s ambitious. I think we’ll get there, I just think the next wave isn’t pure AI (artificial intelligence). If you want discuss opportunities, we need to discuss a different…

Artificial Intelligence

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Augmented Intelligence: Building exoskeletons for the mind
Augmented Intelligence: Building exoskeletons for the mind
Artificial Intelligence

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Jul 25, 2018

AI startup investment criteria

We’re all investing time or money — let’s make sure not to waste it — I started to collect a lot of criteria I thought was a good investment of my time and had a good chance of success based on experiences I’ve had creating a lot of products in the past (like social search, IoT, logistics, AI, and blockchain). For this post I’m just…

Startup

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AI startup investment criteria
AI startup investment criteria
Startup

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Jul 25, 2018

You’re Not Decentralized: The 4 levels of true decentralization

You might not be as decentralized as you think — One of the key design elements of designing a blockchain product is decentralization. There are several key components. I’ll cover them here with my notes so far on them. Note: these are very complex matters. Each of the items below has a bunch of work to be done. Prefect decentralization As I…

Blockchain

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You’re Not Decentralized: The 4 levels of true decentralization
You’re Not Decentralized: The 4 levels of true decentralization
Blockchain

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Published in BotChain

·Jan 23, 2018

Explaining The BotChain: Technology Behind the BotChain

This is part of a series on the BotChain, a network for intelligent autonomous agent management. You can read more about it starting here. In this piece I want to focus on BotChain’s technology at a high level, keeping in mind that our goal is to build a network, ecosystem…

Blockchain

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Blockchain

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Published in BotChain

·Jan 19, 2018

In 10 years we won’t have Blockchains

Improvements in technology may create something better that’s not a block or a chain — I think that in 10 years blockchain technology will improve to a level that calling it “blockchain” will no longer be a useful term. Let’s think about this a moment. Why do we call it a blockchain? I think the three most interesting parts of the blockchain are: Consensus mechanisms …

Blockchain

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In 10 years we won’t have Blockchains
In 10 years we won’t have Blockchains
Blockchain

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Jan 18, 2018

The Forever Company

Technology can help us build things that last a long time — Blockchain technologies are allowing us to create the first “forever companies”. Or a better term may be “forever ecosystems” or “forever networks”. The lifetime of a centralized firm Let’s set aside startups for a moment. We all know they are innovation machines that will likely burn brightly and often have short lifespans. Fortune 500 companies are…

Blockchain

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The Forever Company
The Forever Company
Blockchain

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