This is a trivial but fun thing I’ve done with friends in New York.
And that is, each time you catch up, you only go to a new spot that neither of you have been.
It forces you to look for new spots that are genuinely new, or to finally go to a spot you often overlook.
And then it’s also a shared experience, sometimes it’s a winner, sometimes not.
The other thing is, it then keeps you attune to new spots, or places you’ve wanted to go and now you have a good excuse.
I’m starting the year with enthusiasm for all the new technology & things we can build.
It feels reductive to say that it is like a whole new world of opportunity, the same as when we all first got access to the internet. But it is exactly that.
The initial thought with the internet was, you could look up anything, and that access would help you do anything. Or at least that mass opening of information, was the culture and ethos.
But that reached an asymptote, where as much information was released that could be.
And it had a huge impact. Khan Academy is a perfect example, where there is free education, accessible to all, from anywhere in the world. Breathtaking.
Phase 1: Unlock access to information.
But now, that’s moved up a step.
Phase 2: Unlock the ability to access more of that information.
What we didn’t know, was that to unlock more value, changing the interface of how we access and action the information. And that is what LLMs have opened up.
By letting people interact with knowledge, in a way that they understand (dictated by their prompt) is profound.
And this stepwise change is happening in an already connected world, a world of robotics, space travel, DNA editing. A huge canvas of which to have an impact on. And that’s super exciting.
If you haven’t watched Jensens keynote, even if you’re peripheral to tech, it’s worth a watch or listen in the background.