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Visited Warsaw this summer. Beautiful city full of hope and energy. Can confirm Poland is in full blossom.

25 Fields Medalists reflected last week “[we all need] to make sure that, as AI changes the way work is done, we do not lose sight of what that work was meant to achieve in the first place.” Their public statement calls out the important connection between a groups goal, and the group itself. It is a caution that we must not destroy the social fabric that clothes us. What we do to that fabric, we do to ourselves.

Why "Move Fast, Break Things" is a lousy motto.

Slowly make haste, and without losing courage; Twenty times redo your work; Polish and re-polish endlessly, And sometimes add, but often take away Nicolas Boileau

AI is having a profound impact on my creative process, as an artist, as an engineer, and as a business owner. Generative AI can remove some of the pain from making new things. What is the price we pay for it's help? Does it really make us faster to use AI to create something, or do we spend the same time, but in a different way? I've often heard people use different versions of "Go slow to go fast". It's embedded in ancient stories like the tortoise and the hair, carved in Greek letters on ancient buildings. Festina lente. σπεῦδε βραδέως. Make Haste Slowly.

What a Philip K Dick short story teaches us about a modern day job search.

The Maker movement offers some lessons on how to put AI agents to use in a more useful, less offensive way.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

Upton Sinclair

That is a travesty. I can't help but hope we can find ways to protect projects like this in a way that doesn't require government or corporate regulation. Others have mentioned a Web of Trust / Social Credit - if we could wire that into the the http protocol ...