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An Increasingly Worse Response

Generative AI and LLMs continue to provide the least controversial answer to any question I ask them. For my purposes, this makes them little more than a calculator for words, a generator of historical fiction short stories. As I mentioned two years ago, this doesn’t make LLMs useless, but it does greatly shrink their usefulness …

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Posted byGarrick van BurenMay 1, 2025Posted inUncategorized

More Jobs and More Automation than Ever

When I first got a robot vacuum cleaner, the first thing I noticed was how much worse its cleaning quality was compared against a person. The second thing I noticed: it added a job to the household (one that came with zero training): robot vacuum maintenance Just as we handwash dishes even though we have …

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Posted byGarrick van BurenFebruary 6, 2025February 6, 2025Posted inUncategorized

Calm Tech Principles

https://www.calmtech.institute/calm-tech-principles

Posted byGarrick van BurenJanuary 21, 2025Posted inUncategorized

Simultaneously

FedEx was started in 1971 The first email was sent in 1971 The Pony Express began in 1860, ceased operations just 2 days after… …the transcontinental telegraph was completed in 1861

Posted byGarrick van BurenDecember 2, 2024December 5, 2024Posted inUncategorized

Neopunk Tech Projects

There was a time when the internet was mostly silly technology experiments. Where that it worked at all was the win. All the projects were primarily for delight of the creator and delight for others. There was no advertising. No polish. Simply a neopunk aesthetic of “let’s just do it, it’ll be fun.” As the …

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Posted byGarrick van BurenOctober 9, 2024October 9, 2024Posted inUncategorized

Two AI Bots Discussing My Work

I loaded a substantial sample my writing into Google’s Notebook LM and pressed the button to make a short podcast between to AI bots. Yes, it’s absolutely bizarre to hear bots discuss how amazing kubb is (among other things). Along the way, I also asked the Notebook what the three most controversial themes of my …

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Posted byGarrick van BurenSeptember 26, 2024September 26, 2024Posted inUncategorized

The Return of Doggerland?

For reference: Doggerland @ Wikipedia “this story is of a time beyond the memory of man, before the beginning of history, a time when one might have walked dryshod from France to England.” In 1897 H.G. Wells set his book “A Story of the Stone Age”, Humans, hunter-gathering Neanderthals, lived in Doggerland 10,000BC – 7,500BC. …

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Posted byGarrick van BurenApril 2, 2024April 2, 2024Posted inUncategorized

For Starters Substack

Right now, I’m working on a series, called ‘For Starters – The important stuff early-stage entrepreneurs too often leave until it’s too late’ it’s over at Substack, cuz I want to better understand the benefits of their distribution model.

Posted byGarrick van BurenJanuary 8, 2024January 8, 2024Posted inUncategorized

The Product Equation

Posted byGarrick van BurenSeptember 5, 2023September 5, 2023Posted inUncategorized

Only Finding the Non-Obvious Matters

“The better you understand context, the more likely you will see how easily you can be missing out on it.” Tyler Cowen, “Context is that which is scarce” Magnus Neilsson‘s “Nordic Cookbook” is one of my favorite books, primarily for how it opens: “If you follow the recipes to the dot as printed in the …

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Posted byGarrick van BurenAugust 3, 2023August 3, 2023Posted inUncategorized

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