Recurrent Patterns
Recurrent Patterns is a venture exploring strategies and insights around leading-edge companies, technology and cultural trends. Vaclav engages with leaders, entrepreneurs, scientists, authors and others who can share their perspectives in long-form conversations.
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Dots and Muse
What’s free, cute, takes your data, and makes mistakes on your behalf?
Meta’s new Muse agent.
Don’t forget: if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.
Can you prove that you are from the future?
You travel back to 1995 and tell everyone the Internet will change everything.
They laugh.
That’s the problem every startup founder faces today.
What would impress you?
Okay, AI – You solved the Navier-Stokes problem.
Now do something harder.
Tell us humans something we don’t know.
Does AI really create a competitive moat for your company?
Countless founders are launching new companies and using AI to differentiate themselves in the market. Is that the winning strategy?
Ads, the easy way out
Billions are being spent building AI.
The question: What is the product? What is the business model?
Same old - ads, harvesting your data and searches, to serve you more ads.
This time, it’s the French
“Let’s just switch systems.”
Four words that can turn into years of work, millions in costs and a lot of regret.
Munich knows. France is yet to learn
AI grave diggers
The AI giants are using all available means to get every scrap of human-produced data from the digital and paper age. But are they even focused on the right goal?
Anthropic chip. Why?
It seems like almost all of the leading companies in tech are trying to build their own AI chips. But is there really an advantage in doing so? Or are these companies just wasting money?
The stars above us
This week we take a break from AI to explore Apollo 11, SpaceX's Starship, why getting back to the Moon is still incredibly difficult, and the meteor shower and eclipses worth watching this August.