Bret Victor

Bret Victor
"The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you're doing."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/saving-the-world-from-code/540393/
James Somers Sep 26, 2017 

Bret Victor 
The principle was this: “Creators need an immediate connection to what they’re creating.” The problem with programming was that it violated the principle. That’s why software systems were so hard to think about, and so rife with bugs: The programmer, staring at a page of text, was abstracted from whatever it was they were actually making.

“Our current conception of what a computer program is,” he said, is “derived straight from Fortran and ALGOL in the late ’50s. Those languages were designed for punch cards.” 

Bret Victor The Future of Programming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4
Joey Reid
Published on Jul 31, 2013

Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII
Rui Oliveira
Published on Feb 22, 2012
34:09   skip to this stage if you don't want watch the demo in the middle 

http://www.nomodes.com/Larry_Tesler_Consulting/Home.html
to recognize a wrong that has been unacknowledge in the culture

http://worrydream.com/

https://medium.com/thethirdwave/what-kai-fu-lee-taught-me-about-entrepreneurship-6241b91b72d 
Tia Gao
Jun 7, 2016

Bret Victor - Media for Thinking the Unthinkable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUaOucZRlmE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUaOucZRlmE
Colin McDonnell
Published on Jun 16, 2015


The necessary revolution : how individuals and organization are working together to create a sustainable world / Peter Senge ... [et al.].—1st ed. 
1. sustainable development. 
2. industries—environmental aspects. 
3. social responsibilities of business.
HC79.E5N436 2008
338.9'27—dc22 

2008

The necessary revolution : how individual and organizations are working together to create a sustainable world 
Peter Senge, 
Bryan Smith, Nina Kruschwitz, Joe Laur, Sara Schley
2008

p.304
This was Carstedt's biggest lesson from his work on the Green Zone.  Initially he didn't really think the project was that exciting because it involved only existing, proven technologies.  But people started to come from all around the world to see it. “I missed the whole point ... the importance of something that people could touch.”  All of a sudden, people could imagine what a “circular economy” would really look like—“it became real for them.”  Once he understood this, he and a growing number of colleagues started to move to the larger vision of prototyping an entire “bioregion.”

p.304
This happens for customers in established markets as well.  For instance, when people see a Toyota Prius, they naturally start asking why there aren't more automobiles like this. 

pp.304-305
Such latent needs—desires that customers have never expressed because there was no way to express them or they had not given them much thought—are difficult or impossible to discern with standard market research methods, such as focus group or surveys, but they come to the surface when people see tangible embodiments of new ideas. 
   (The necessary revolution : how individual and organizations are working together to create a sustainable world, Peter Senge, Bryan Smith, Nina Kruschwitz, Joe Laur, Sara Schley, 2008, 338.927 Senge)


Bret Victor - The Humane Representation of Thought
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agOdP2Bmieg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agOdP2Bmieg
Colin McDonnell
Published on Jun 16, 2015


https://www.brianstorti.com/the-actor-model/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model#Influence
agent systems (in most definitions) impose extra constraints upon the Actors, typically requiring that they make use of commitments and goals. 
https://waimingmok.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/how-twitter-is-scaling/