https://www.scry.llc/2025/09/1...

Cost Of Information: Assume the declining cost of information (COI) has driven economic activity for fifty years. Then the stagnation or increase of COI could be disasterous for the economy. The preceding graph shows an inflection point in Internet user growth, implying that Internet growth is slowing and will soon stagnate.

I add this data point to the continuous layoffs in IT industry for several years now. we are probably at the saturation / inflection point for Information Technology.

buckle up

https://www.scry.llc/2014/05/1...

sadly they were more concerned with converting me than implementing the semantic model i developed which really was their true goal, I think. They could not see it. i wonder about how it played out sometimes. That perhaps I ended there specifically to see this blindness for myself.

It's quite eerie to me that Gloo has resurfaced after 13 years.

I don't believe Beck is driven by money in this project. I estimate he's sunk about $150 million of his own money. In my opinion, Gloo was a personal vision he received. I think he's sincere in his belief.

in all honesty, I felt like I was guided to Gloo to personally experience that lesson in the deepest depths of born again religion. I saw it with Beck and I saw how he struggled with it to somehow thread the needle but not give up the power. This is my personal opinion of my limited view.

haha. dude, that is exactly what I wrote for Gloo. The original analytics architect created the biggest mismatch of design vs need Ive ever seen. So I threw $250k of work out and wrote a system for 1/10th of throughput and complexity.

https://www.scry.llc/2014/05/2...

You might be shocked at what you can deduce by deltas in semantics and timing.

https://www.scry.llc/2022/02/1...

It's weird seeing Gloo show up on the radar again
it's like an ex-wife suddenly appearing talking to your neighbor. haha.

Beck never struck me as a psycopath. FYI, i've met Gates and Bezos at company parties but they both struck me as more distant. He is very much in the rich man / camel / needle quandary, wanting to believe some of his wealth spent appropriately buys him a path through the needle without giving up the wealth.

At Gloo, I worked a few feet from Scott Beck and over a few months I saw the truth of money - like gravity, it invisibly impacts every decision and every relationship. Beck made an attempt to manage that, I think. The "rich man / camel / needle" saying.

I wrote this for Gloo, in the right environment it would have been worth a few million, I think, but Gloo was more interested in converting me and one day I went to lunch, had a couple drinks and never went back.

https://www.scry.llc/2022/02/1...

Im using it now with AI for slightly different concept.

gloo was one of my startups (2013).

https://www.scry.llc/2014/05/2...

Scott Beck is most likely the richest born-again Christian today (Blockbuster, Boston Market, Delta Dental, Einstein Bagels). He self-funds Gloo with his own money and is much more focused on faith than money, at least with Gloo. Gloo is a personal faith project.

I'm surprised he's still at it 12 years later. Gloo is a money loser, not a maker.

https://www.scry.llc/2024/12/2...

it's very likely that we'll see a substantial reduction in the standard workweek.

I'd care more about the vaccines part if my government hadn't tried to murder me with an experimental death injection and lied about almost everything. I'm a-ok with Kennedy's actions so far.

https://www.scry.llc/2022/02/1...
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Author is another quasi-luddite who yearns for the days of hand-coded C++ because it made him elite, :)

people create 100x more slop on social media, frok outsourced code slaves, legislation and progeny.

the AI stuff works good enough, I'm not entering it in art contest.

these Culture Magazine dudes are the Nuevo Luddites.

schmidt has no knowledge of history or math

https://www.scry.llc/2024/12/2...

"The real cause of economic depressions is the mismatch between production time and consumption time which occurs gradually as productivity rises. Governments then create make-work jobs in a haphazard attempt to maintain consumption (equilibrium). Eventually, the impedance mismatch leads to collapse and a new system. We are probably on the verge of that change."

Production equals consumption in an ideal economy. Both are bound by finite time. If production increases, consumption must increase, too. Ergo, time spent on production must fall, which is what happened during the last two depressionary eras. 1873-1897 and 1930-1940

https://www.scry.llc/2024/12/2...

This phenomenon can be modeled with two linear equations.
Conditions
Assume we want Production = Consumption. (P = C)

Linear Equations

P Hours + C Hours = Konstant (16 hours if we measure by day).
(P Hours) X (Rate of P) = (C Hours) X (Rate of C)

Example by week: (40 hours) x (Rp) = (72 hours) x (Rc)

As Rp increases, P Hours must decline to maintain equilibrium.

https://www.scry.llc/2025/01/2...

https://www.scry.llc/2025/09/1...

"Technology revolutions create "virtuous cycles" where growth in a primary industry drives growth in other industries. During the Steel revolution, the falling cost of steel led to more railroads, which led to cheaper commodities like wheat and coal. Cheaper coal made even cheaper steel for steel-framed buildings, which spawned elevators, penthouse apartments and fire escapes"