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"We have to be able to summon vivid enough imaginations of the disasters to be heroic long before they happen. And we have to educate our imaginations how to do this without introducing superstitions and paranoid delusions."
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My 2-sentence summary of the Clojure philosophy:
Software should be defined in terms of abstractions, not concretions. But beware of bespoke abstractions, an oxymoron.
Software design begins with asking how should the activity it is intended to support be carried out.
Beautiful essay by Simone Weil on the Iliad as the poem of force.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Il…
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Dr. Maria Montessori should rightly be considered a genius if for no other reason than that people have been looking after babies and kids for thoooousands of years and yet in all that time nobody came up with nor codified all of her insights.
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"We are never simply seeing what’s 'really there,' stripped bare of our own anticipations or insulated from our own past experiences. Instead, all human experience is part phantom — the product of deep-set predictions."
Superb read: themarginalian.org/2023/06/2…
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link.com is underrated. Great consumer experience and measurably increases revenue for merchants.
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Silicon Valley's greatest blind spot: that human beings have bodies and exist in a physical universe
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New op-ed from @publicknowledge in MIT Technology Review:
"This decision harms libraries. It locks them into an e-book ecosystem designed to extract as much money as possible while harvesting (and reselling) reader data en masse." technologyreview.com/2024/09…
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Exhortation-to-self is a potent medium!
(crop from whiteboard photo in dynamicland.org/archive/2015…)
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We want to hear from you: How does yesterday's opinion from the appellate court affect your reading or research? What does it mean to you that 500,000+ books are no longer available for lending? Please share your story ➡️ forms.gle/JgwWLxhvKgAZdV9T7 #LetReadersRead
ALT What does the court's opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive mean to you? Share your story #LetReadersRead
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★ Dynamicland's new website documents ten years of progress toward a humane dynamic medium. dynamicland.org
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Software design is the art of making good decisions
But even more it's the art of not making decisions
It's figuring out how to build in ways that let you defer and reverse choices
And knowing when you must get it right at the start
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It's unbelievable how many dynamic companies broke their streaks of engineer-CEOs for the first time in the 2000s, installing their first MBA/finance CEOs, who then promptly made fundamental strategic errors that nixed the company's future, that are now becoming obvious.
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The value of your system today is given by what it can do. Its functionality.
The value of your system tomorrow is given by how you can change it. And that depends on its structure.
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Writing is a way of thinking. If you delegate writing to AI, you skip the thinking as well as the writing.