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In a previous post, I explored whether LLMs fit Howard Baetjer’s framework of software as capital. The conclusion: LLMs are capital, but a strange new kind — “compressed cultural capital” that embodies general human knowledge…
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Martin has been re-reading Howard Baetjer’s 1998 book Software as Capital. He’s been making notes in Craft — parsing the distinction between articulate and tacit knowledge, the nature of capital goods and capital structures, and…
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Something strange is happening. Software used to be a durable product — you bought it (or used open source made by someone else), it had a name, a version number, a brand, and a lifecycle.…
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Martin was looking through his books and found a 1997 copy of Architects of the Web — Robert H. Reid’s firsthand account of the 1,000 days that built the commercial web. Reading it sparked a…
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Paul Graham published “The Brand Age” last week — a forensic history of Swiss watchmaking as a case study in what technology does to markets. It’s worth reading in full. Here’s what it made me…
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