AI Is Our Global Nervous System
The Second Current
The tie between electrification and cognification is going to blow your mind and
I spend my days looking at two things:
code
cap tables
When I look at code, I am looking for simple elegance and logic. When I look at cap tables, I am looking for the future. I wouldn’t mind simple, either!
For the last two decades, the future has been about software eating the world. That was the thesis. It was a good thesis. It generated trillions of dollars in value. It moved atoms into bits. It digitized our social lives and our bank accounts.
But lately, the air has changed.
You can feel it in the commit logs and the board meetings. We are no longer just writing software that organizes information. We are building a new substrate for society entirely.
We are witnessing the wide-scale cognification of the human experience.
To understand where we are going, I look back at the only event in human history that compares in magnitude.
I look at electrification.
Most people think of electrification as a singular e…
