Francesco
@fran
Francesco
@fran
AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence.
Emphasizing the collectivity (something built on the commons) over the artificiality (a feat of technology) gives us an entire new way to see, perceive and relate to the technology.
-via Holly Herndon, in conversation with Ezra Klein
A caveat worth mentioning when trying to place communities in the “bad community” basket, if ever that’s a worthwhile exercise
Rebecca Jennings for Vox Media
Why barter and Embracing your ever changing job description
The section “a different kind of currency” speaks to why I believe in the usefulness of the skills bartering events we’re organising
I feel like an anti-entrepreneur, in that it feels completely against my nature to come up with ideas that make money. It’s like I can conceive of every kind of idea except that kind.

I NEED to have this
Adding one extra feature nearly cost us our startup.
Monday morning, anxiety twisted in my chest as I deleted half of our codebase.
Our product was buried under features, each an attempt to stave off failure, yet leaving us on the brink of collapse. The team lingered, eyes glued to my screen.
“It’s too cluttered,” I finally said, swallowing my fear.
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