On the Precipice
Like many others, I recently read Situational Awareness. It’s a long paper by Leopold Aschenbrenner, who was a researcher at OpenAI, about what the next decade will be like. A decade during which, he predicts, AI will change everything. He is able to paint a pretty clear picture of
Writing Style
When I write blog posts, I like to write as follows: 1. Short and simple. I write posts that are as short as possible and keep language simple. 2. Personal. I try to write in a personal way. For instance, I might start out wanting to give some generic advice.
Vulnerable
I find it very fascinating how vulnerable writing blog posts makes me feel. I imagine that I'm putting something personal out there into this vast space. Out there for eternity for everyone to see and consume and do whatever with. But then I have also found a feeling
How I Interview
I consider interviewing among the most important things that I do at Chorus One. If I make sure that we hire fantastic people, it seems likely that the company will do well. There are two other critical things. One is to make sure that we have a culture, where people
The State of Urbit
In 2022, I wrote a few posts about Urbit (1, 2 and 3). I had been interested in Urbit since 2017, but in 2021 I really started to dive in and became fascinated with the opportunities I saw. In the summer of 2022, I decided that I wanted to build
On Cosmos Hub and ICF
A proposal [https://www.mintscan.io/cosmos/proposals/839] by Hypha and Informal is up for vote on the Cosmos Hub. They want the community pool to fully fund their work. This is work specifically focused on improving the Cosmos Hub. Until now, these teams have been funded by the
Red Horizon
Recently, we officially launched Red Horizon [https://redhorizon.com/]. Red Horizon is a project / team at Chorus One that is focused on providing hosting for Urbit ships. I've written about Urbit a bunch of times before. In January 2022, I wrote a post [https://bfc.do/urbit/] about
Audience
I feel very mixed about having an audience, having people who actually read these posts. On the one hand, I write completely differently if I write a blog post versus something that nobody else will read. And I always liked when people would tell me that they read and like
Paris in July
Since getting back from Romania and Switzerland after my peritonitis, I've been in Lisbon. In the end, it will be almost 7 weeks of being here without any traveling. Probably the longest period since I moved here 2.5 years ago. I've loved this time of
Writing: Why and How
I really like writing blog posts. It makes me feel creative. It makes me feel exposed. In the past, I would sometimes write almost every day for a while. That felt great. I want to do it again. My goal is to make writing fun and easy. So that it