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  1. Aug 2022
  2. Mar 2022
    1. "The best way to predict the future is to invent it," Alan Kay said in 1989.

      Alan Kay (ur. 17 maja 1940) – amerykański informatyk. Jeden z pierwszych pracowników Xerox PARC. Laureat nagrody Turinga w 2003 za pionierską pracę nad obiektowymi językami programowania jako lider zespołu tworzącego język Smalltalk i fundamentalny wkład w rozwój komputerów osobistych.

  3. Feb 2022
    1. I describe myself as a ‘media inventor’, which I know sounds like a strange label. To me, it means that a lot of my work – not really my novels, but almost everything else – involves inventing a format or container at the same time that I’m writing or imagining what goes into it.

      Robin Sloan considers himself a "media inventor" by which he means someone who creates containers and things which go into them.

  4. Oct 2021
    1. I’ve been trying for the last year and a half to implement Ryan Holiday’s great index-card filing system for keeping ideas in place.

      I don't like the common framing I see in posts like this that want to credit a particular person for "inventing" a pattern like these that goes back centuries. The fact that we've lost these patterns is a terrible travesty.