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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Hard to compete with free

Open source software is supposed to help companies innovate and collaborate. I question whether the biggest tech companies in the world are using the open source framework to actually stifle competition from startups.

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Oil and data. There will be blood

Are we running out of data the same way we are running out of oil? Media reports suggest we are exhausting our supply of data to train AI. It turns out those stories have a lot in common with past predictions that we would run out of oil.

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Clippy, the dead are walking again

Microsoft's latest unveiling, Microsoft Copilot, is already like reading from The Book of the Dead, where the legendary Clippy is guiding Copilot to the afterlife.

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