The system Smith went on to describe (for programming by demonstration) in part elicited some fascinating thoughts from Alan Kay:

There are some interesting answers to this question! Plan 9 had some ideas around distributed user environments and mechanisms for making use of the various computers and other devices from one space: youtube.com/watch?v=N3paky… What are some others?

This week: Making books and watching deer.

Simply following one's curiosity — even when it seems unproductive to do so — is wildly underestimated as an activity that moves the human race forward. Feynman's spinning plates led to his Nobel prize.

I have enjoyed my work at the computer significantly more since starting to bind books daily. Not that I didn’t enjoy it before, but there’s some kind of forced balance that I think I needed.

carpe noctem