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I always think of it as this old fashioned scroll thing with the weird letter S in it.
Every time Alan Kay speaks, I get smarter. And I don't mean "smarter" in a ted talk way.
I have not given Alan Kay permission to declare me broken.
His computing skills are legend, but he’s not a god.
These notion articles are quite nice imo.
On Urbanism:
Her podcast Order without Design [0] where she interviews the Bertaud couple
Fields note on Miami [1] (with beautiful pictures)
Metamuse interview on cities [2]
and a lot more on her blog
On tech :
She was the PM for Github sponsors (and I believe other open-source friendly projects), great interview of her by the changelog [4]
The Pioneer series (of which this interview is an episod), favorites are Louis Pouzing and roundtable about Hamming [5]
[0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/order-without-design-h...
[1] https://devonzuegel.com/post/field-notes-miami
[2] https://museapp.com/podcast/33-cities/
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I adore notion and will unironically shill it for them at any appropriate moment. so, er, yeah. GET NOTION.
I enjoyed notion but stopped using it mainly due to the bad offline functionality (and occasionally getting randomly logged out). Has this been improved yet? (Desktop|IOS App)
[1]: https://anytype.io
[2]: because it is offline-first and has things like named relations, so you can connect information in any custom way that you like.
> They're all about this idea, which most programmers have that's wrong, is that you're going to write the program the right way. Nothing's going to be wrong. The whole idea is to make a fucking mess. I think he's great and I've learned a lot from him, but this is where I immediately disagreed. But it got me thinking and I realized it's because the stuff I work on is mostly a solved problem. So I think people that re…
at work yeah, we all naturally want a very defensive, safe, territory. we dont want volatility & risk in our running, cash making systems.
it might be helpful to reflect on thr lifecycles of software development. Pioneers, settlers, & town planners comes to mind as a useful model, of the changing approaches as software established itself over time.
https://mobile.twitter.com/swardley/status/10875115450918993...
i'm really really warmed to hear that you were able to put yourself in the shoes of those who came before, those who were charged with building something out of nothing. most of us join fairly established entities, and we do not see the drive-to-make through the strong, powerful point of view of those trying to get create, those trying to get started.
when Alan Kay &all talk about personal computing, to me, it is much more a domain of will & creation & whimsy than the controlled, regularized, predictable processes we aim for when we professionals are building & elaborating our paid, industrial computing work.
Such a great interview! Or rather, pontification: > See, what I'm doing here is I'm not conversing. I really can't converse very well at my age because I've lost my patience. So, what I do is pontificate, which is the same as giving you something like it's written. > This is why experienced programmers have big multiple screens. They're working on something where the result is going to be fit on one screen, but you h…
The group of 35 people working to gather ideas, discuss, annotate, combine and edit, then send off to the printers to be typeset overnight, then repeating the process is a fascinating detail of how the US Constitution was built that I really, really wish they had taught in school. I always think of it as this old fashioned scroll thing with the weird letter S in it.
If Alan Kay willing to keep talking, why not keep him talking? You could turn it into a two-parter for whatever the show format is.