How Tech Giants are Devising Real Ethics for Artificial Intelligence by John Markoff
Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft are coming together to form an industry group focused on the creation of a standard of ethics around artificial intelligence. The group's aims will be to be to ensure that AI research is focused on benefiting people, not hurting them.

One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100) by Stanford + Co. (thx Eric Horvitz)
A consortium of researchers released a report out of Stanford University that details the impact of artificial intelligence on society. The brainchild of Eric Horvitz, a computer scientist at Microsoft Research and Stanford alum, the group includes a host of leading academicians and talented contributors. Certainly an interesting read and, incidentally, the inspiration for the industry group noted earlier ☝️ .

The Next Big Shift in SaaS by Tomasz Tunguz
In addition to sharing his thoughts on the workflow of the future, which I shared a week or so ago, Tomasz discusses how SaaS applications can move from being displacers to disruptors. I had a recent conversation that arrived at a similar conclusion. Doing some reading after the fact led me to this post from July. A timely read, despite the delay.

First Round Capital's FAQs from First Round Capital
First Round Capital opens up their playbook to provide more insight into what they're looking for in new investments, their process, and how they make decisions. Great to see this type of increased transparency in the venture space. ICYMI - Bloomberg Beta recently open sourced their manual, too.

Facebook AI Research open sourcing tools
FAIR is releasing some of Facebook's tools including fastText for text classification and DeepMask, SharpMask, and MultiPathNet which are used to understand objects in photos...

If not evident from the lack of recent content, I've found less time to write. Or, more precisely, to write here. While building product and growing a company keep me more than fulfilled creatively (more on those in due time), I recognize that reflection remains important. So instead of writing longer form posts, until further notice, I've decided to at least provide a weekly(ish) recap of some things that I've found interesting from the days prior -- mostly articles, blog posts, podcasts, and others bits primarily focused on tech. Perhaps, but not always, they might be accompanied by the occasional commentary from yours truly. For readers, I hope it will be an interesting curation of content. For me, it will help keep track of some of the interesting things I've read from week to week.

08.14.16 Recap

Innovating at Scale by Arun Sethi
A good commentary on (and reminder of) the Innovator's Dilemma. Basically, companies have to disrupt themselves through innovation or they will be victims of their own success. Old news, perhaps, but companies still continuously fall victim to the plight. Worth a read to refresh with some survival tips for the operators...

09.04.16 Recap

Introducing the Recap* (*until I find a better name for it)

08.14.16 Recap