I remember when Oregon Venture Fund first published this framework. Because it provided transparent guidance on what they used to assess startups. Well, with the changing world of AI enablement, they’re taken another cut at the framework. To wit: In an ...

I’ve been nudging folks to see if anyone had any details about who was selected for the new Oregon AI Accelerator. And all of that nudging finally paid off. Curious — like I was — about who they selected…? Here’s the list of the 20 companies th...

One gripe I often hear about Portland folks is that we don’t tend to think big enough. It comes from a good place. Recognizing that we’ve got a ton of creativity, talent, and potential. We just don’t always have the risk tolerance. But that may be ch...

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I’ve been talking about the hardware renaissance that’s beginning to take shape around here. You see, as AI computing resources become more and more scarce, I hypothesize that we’re going to see people working to advance the technology to make things...

Just yesterday OSS community (me included) found a new topic to reflect on. TailwindLabs (creators of successful CSS framework TailwindCSS) got a pull request to add llms.txt to their documentation site. It was declined with a reason. Reasoning (full in a ...

The context graph debate is important, but it’s just the beginning. The real revolution comes when agents can not only access past decisions, but truly learn from them — building causal models, explaining their reasoning, and reflecting on their own pe...

Property graphs have become the dominant paradigm for modeling connected data, yet they lack the formal semantic rigor that RDF/OWL brought to knowledge representation. While RDF graphs are constrained by their triple-based structure, property graphs offer...