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Personal Dynamic Media Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg
Alan Kay • Personal Dynamic Media
What Alan Kay has been emphasizing, and which is now at the heart of Bret Victor’s design philosophy, is that the computer is a “dynamic medium.” The essence of a computer is not the keyboard, the mouse, and the screen. It’s computational and responsive capabilities that don’t exist in a static medium like paper. We should use this dynamic medium t... See more
Alan Chan • My Vision: A Forgotten History
“You had a set of folks running these machines who were the priesthood of hardware, and the rest of us were railing against it,” says Chris Brown, a software-development manager at the time. “We wanted a playground where we could go to freely try things out.”
Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Brush up on the prior art: “We were intellectually excited about going down that path of this general space of software creation. So we spent a lot of time doing research. It was almost like being on a sabbatical, reading all this prior art of old computing pioneers, like Douglas Engelbart and Bill Atkinson , and even conte
... See moreFirst Round Capital • Airtable's Path to Product-Market Fit
@mckaywrigley I have a bunch of questions I ask. What would you build for yourself? What did previous companies you've worked for need? What are you an expert in? What have you noticed recently that seemed broken? If you were going to build something just for fun, what would it be?
Pierre
pierre.co
This is end-user programming, a vision for empowered computing pursued by bright-eyed computer science visionaries.
Ink & Switch • https://www.inkandswitch.com/end-user-programming/
you’re not building a product you’re engineering culture