Andy Claremont

So much opportunity, inspiration, creativity, and possibility lies in applying the skills and experience that you may have from technological disciplines in other realms and industries that are often far less advanced in their deployment of technologies.

The internet is now under unprecedented pressure from the AI companies that have been unleashed by the very openness and scale the internet enabled. There is a real risk that the information ecosystems that have formed around the open web over the past two decades will be devoured by the generative AI systems they have helped bring into being.

Even among the talented who choose a path of building, most take safe, incremental bets — another SaaS company, another turnkey consumer startup, another digital Beanie Baby. Such pursuits not only fail to push the world forward, but pose a cost in opportunity. There are important challenges facing humanity that no one is working on, including... See more

Successful artists, musicians and other creatives have a similar dilemma. Their fans want more of what they did to reach their success. They want them to play their old songs, paint the same style paintings, and make the same kind of great movies. But in order to keep improving, to maintain their reputation as someone creative, the artists need to... See more

The club model teaches us something: organizations that endure don’t try to include everyone. They’re clear about their identity, even as that identity evolves. Some clubs that were men-only for centuries now welcome women. They haven’t survived by being vague, they’ve survived by being clear, then changing what that clarity meant over time.

The protocols are not as important as the people and communities who connect across them. Part of the ethos of openness is that it’s not about building a “winner”: nobody should be locked into any platform or technology. These movements are also too young for everyone to have converged on one underlying protocol; we’re still at the early innovation... See more

To spot weird signals, you need to go down rabbit holes. Follow your intuition. And remember, pursuing rabbit holes is not always an act of procrastination. Sometimes, it’s simply your mind telling you to follow your curiosity.