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Should we meet for real or not? My first company was called meetforeal, a startup aimed at fostering face-to-face connections using technology. It was the year 2008, a time when social media was scaling up, and the internet's influence on our lives was steadily deepening. Through meetforeal, I first learned a lot about face-to-face gatherings and analyzed deeply the impact of technology on human interactions. My approach to creation and innovation is intuitive, driven by subtle signals. And specially in the last year of 2023 ive noticed a persistent desire for deeper and more meaningful face-to-face interactions. However, amidst this longing, and the growing sense that we don't really belong to any real face to face community there's a growing impatience and fickleness among people. Meaningful connections, whether personal or professional, seem elusive. Despite the efficiency of Zoom for all types of connections, they often lack the depth necessary for genuine collaboration, innovation or event just friendship. While face-to-face interaction remains paramount for human development, We need an AI to help us augment face to face interactions. We need to get a sense of the conversations, interactions, and topics that characterize various communities and groups. AI will be a community facilitator which will foster continuous engagement, suggest relevant topics, and organize meetups. In a world now where distractions abound, AI can help maintain the health of communities by guiding members toward valuable interactions and encouraging participation in existing and new groups and communities. The key lies in bridging the gap between Zoom meetings, face-to-face gatherings, and virtual communities. AI will be a super connector and community manager. I long for stronger community interactions but at the same time I am stuck with so many other things to do, that finding the time and organizing gatherings become challenging. Oh but wait I will create the AI that will solve this problem and is called Agent-A. Below is a javascript program I wrote in 2011 matching people real time at an Ignite event.

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I’m a firm believer is seeing and getting a demo on the new tech out there. A couple reasons 1: you will see how the industry is moving 2: you may find your new tech stack to make you better and more efficient 3: you may learn you have the right tech stack just have to use it better 4: most important you will get the right tech and see that tech can help you focus on what’s most important, the people you are helping Use the tech and see the person

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For a few years now, I have been trying to find simple ways to convey the powerful message of Web2 Neo Feudalism. The premise is that while our societies strive to be based on the rule of law, the internet is basically in the Middle Ages in terms of user rights. We own almost nothing, and we are happy. In this video, I am once again attempting to explain it. Please let me know if I managed to explain it clearly! https://lnkd.in/dBjc5H2s #web2 #web3

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Back in December, I presented SongStrudel to the Vegas Programmers group at Tech Alley. I started work on SongStrudel to solve the biggest problem music producers have: finishing their work. I didn't need to do any formal research to immediately know that disconnection from the big picture is what causes us to overdo a single section, only to abandon it after the luster has worn off. I wanted to create a user-friendly, lightning-fast structuring tool, with which musicians and producers could whip up broad song structures in ten minutes that they could reference ten months later and recall their creative intent. Heavily inspired by a print-out I used to use, the "sections and cells with freeform notes" format struck the perfect balance between detail and speed. I knew that I had to walk a narrow line here. If I had kept it too simple it wouldn't have been any better than the methods I wanted to improve on. Similarly, if I had thrown chord charts, lyrics, rhythms, melodies, or tempos at the program, it would have just been an unnecessary reinvention of musical notation. Check out Tech Alley's video for my live explanation of SongStrudel's why-and-how. songstrudel.vercel.app #mongodb #react #nextjs #nodejs #tailwindcss EDIT: Back up!