bret victor deep dive day #1

Author: Steve Krouse

journal.md

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 This jornal is stream-of-consciousness style so apologies in advance if it's difficult to read. You should know that I don't have spellcheck and I'm a terrible speller. Most importantly, you should know that I add new entries at the top of the page, so you'll have to scroll to the bottom if you want to start from the beginning.
 
+### September 8, 2017 9:01am
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+Good morning! So I spent the last hour or so writing Alan Kay a much too long and too epic email. Now I'd like to move on to my Bret Victor Deep Dive. Before I begin, I'd like to share a laugh with everyone with this link to Bret's hit single [Caltech Girl](http://worrydream.com/media/caltech_girl.html). [HOLY SHIT I JUST FOUND THIS GOLD](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00vMnIECCbo)
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+Unfortunately, the link to his earliest website at CalTech seems to be broken: http://sites.ugcs.caltech.edu/~bret/alternate/. I wasn't able to find it on waybackmachine either, so if anyone has access to an archived version of this, please let me know at steve at futureofcoding.org :)
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+While they are fun, Bret's websites' interactivity does make it a bit harder to exhaustively and systematically explore. Let's start with http://worrydream.com/ugcs...
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 ### September 7, 2017 11:40am
 
 Success! Not only did I stick to schedule (despite a 45 minute break to talk with mom), but I also mark today as the end of my Alan Kay Deep Dive Experience. [Here is the final commit.](https://github.com/stevekrouse/futureofcoding.org/commit/3c61d3a143f71c72400a3f23ce086ef904fbaa06)

links.md

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 * [Forms/3](http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~burnett/Forms3/forms3.html)
 * [CycleJS Component Difficulties](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU8jtb6UBGg&feature=youtu.be&t=46m15s)
 * [Joe Edelman - citizen logisitics](http://nxhx.org/) and [Chatterbase](http://alpha.trycarbide.com/@jxe/6d5e19369ddb9cc4728510e11a3f7586)
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+* Inmates are running the Asylum
+* Hacker's Delight
 
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 ## Researched
 
+### Bret Victor Deep Dive
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+* [Bret Victor UGCS](http://worrydream.com/ugcs)
+  * "calltech was best four years of my life", but UC Berkley was "hell"
+  * "I'm a passive pacifist. Like an apolitical Gandhi with food and hair."
+  * "My Ultimate Life Goal is, basically, to Create Something Good. To invent something that improves the state of the world. Something that helps people, something that improves the global quality of life. Something. Someday."
+  * "I like getting e-mail. Send some to [email protected]. Please?" Seems like this changed.
+  * "The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: This book should be required reading for everyone in or around the software industry. Nothing I've read has ever resonated with me this strongly." TODO add this to the top of the list
+  * Hacker's Delight: Despite the cringingly misleading title, this is the best book ever written. I'm in rapture. TODO add this to the top of the list as well.
+  * I'm really enjoying reading his blog from when he, like me now, was 23. Sounds like he was trying to find his way, post-hell-grad-school, and post-break-up with Joanne (which is heartbreaking).
+  * TODO continue reading his blawg after 5/11/01.
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 * [Computer Software - 1984](http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr1984001_comp_soft.pdf)
   * "A powerful genre can serve as wings or chians. The most treacherous metaphors are the ones that seem to work for a time, because they can keep more powerful insights from bubbling up."
     * TODO think about these, particularly about progrmming, but also other fields