Guustaaf Damave is a Dutch technologist and writer based in Taiwan. He spent decades building software, an activity he loved until AI became better at it than he was, at which point he became a supervisor and found the transition entirely acceptable.
He has been writing a weekly newsletter about AI, culture, and the future since 2023. You can read it at guustaaf.substack.com. He is also the author of The Minimum You Need to Do Before AI Changes Your Life: A No-Panic Checklist for Normal People in an Abnormal Moment. Learn more about the situation we all face here.
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Intro music “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range. “Life Upside Down,” by Brett Newski. Outro: “Games Without Frontiers,” by Peter Gabriel.
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