Hat-tip to the excellent Oliver Burkeman and his 4000 Weeks. An interesting combination of the thoughtful, the fun, and the terribly naive from the great… Read More »Keynes on Purposiveness, Not Loving your Cat, and Ending Up in a Jam
Educators, generals, dieticians, psychologists, and parents program. Armies, students, and some societies are programmed. An assault on large problems employs a succession of programs, most… Read More »Alan J. Perlis on Programming and Avoiding the Constipation of Philosophy
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With just: A tract of fertile land; some bales of hay; a few square meters of glass; a few tens of meters of spun copper… Read More »Technology (18): Self. Sufficiency.
Rover, Wanderer …And the road becomes my brideI have stripped of all but prideSo in her I do confideAnd she keeps me satisfiedGives me all… Read More »The Hero’s Journey (Wherever I May Roam)
Amazing alternate way to think about patents! @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/srwmi1QQpt — Manish Maheshwari (@manishm) November 20, 2021 See Also: Building blocks and open source organisationsHybrids (4):… Read More »Highlight Reel: Elon Musk on Opensourcing Tesla’s Patents
The Exponential View is usually worth a listen, and this was a really good interview. Here’s a highlight: AZEEM AZHAR: … let’s look at the… Read More »Technology (17): Speeding up the S-Curve – Azeem Azhar and Hau Thai-Tang on the accelerating electrification of automobiles
Q: Would you rather be a big fish in a small pond, or a small fish in a big pond? A: As with most questions… Read More »On Fish and Ponds
I haven’t been able to find a literacy campaign earlier than King Sejong the Great of Korea‘s 1443-1444 Hunminjeongeum (“The Correct/Proper Sounds for the Instruction… Read More »Writing and Reading as Technology (7): History’s First Mass Literacy Campaign?