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• slowhand09 · Sep 19, 2022 · Recommends

  The Art of the Long View - Peter Schwartz Any book by Tom Kyte. Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware - Andy Hunt The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T. - Stewart Brand Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles Mackay Only the Paranoid Survive - Andy Grove

  on “Ask HN: Name 3-5 books that had the most impact on your career and knowledge?” ↗
• michaelpinto · Oct 7, 2011 · Recommends

  That's very easy for me to answer -- but I'm a bit older than most of you folks. As funny as it may seem the book that changed my life and opened my eyes was "The Media Lab" (1988). and the author of the book was Stewart Brand. What's interesting is that many of the things being talked about in the book are now very much a part of the real world. It's also interesting to…

  on “Ask HN: What's our generation's "Whole Earth Catalog"?” ↗
• detourdog · Dec 23, 2022 · Recommends

  Inspired me as an undergrad Industrial Design student in 1989ish that and The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T by Stewart Brand were the two most influential technology books for me at that time. Coincidentally enough it turns out my cousin was in the thick of it while the pre-media…

  on “Ask HN: What is the relevance today of Minsky's “Society of Mind” concept?” ↗
• mitchbob · Jun 16, 2023 · Mentions

  By Stewart Brand, editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, author of The Media Lab, co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, one of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, assistant to Douglas Engelbart on The Mother of All Demos, and subject of the recent film We Are as Gods. Glad to see he's…

  on “What Motorcycles Teach About Maintenance” ↗
• ArtWomb · Mar 7, 2022 · Mentions

  From Stewart Brand's The MIT Media Lab: Inventing the Future: After a dinner of take-out dim sum, Minsky, who had been reading the Koran with some dismay at its violent inquiry-blunting formulae, sermonized, “Religion is a teaching machine—…

  on “The Society of Mind (2011)” ↗
• EdwardCoffin · Mar 5, 2010 · Mentions

  This reminds me of something Seymour Papert talked about when he was interviewed in "The Media Lab" by Stewart Brand, talking about an African conference on The New Math: "... At a certain point the Nigerian delegation stood up and walked out. It was quite dramatic -- they were dressed in beautiful…

  on “If Nerds Can Learn Linux, Why Can't They Learn Not To Interrupt People?” ↗
• tzs · Oct 20, 2022 · Mentions

  …wants to be $10/month" Actually it is kind of both. The full phrase was "Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive. ...That tension will not go away", from Stewart Brand's "The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT". That was a more succinct expression of something he said earlier to Steve Wozniak at a conference: > On the one hand you have — the point you’re making Woz — is that information…

  on “Copilot under fire as dev claims it emits 'large chunks of my copyrighted code'” ↗
• rml · Apr 18, 2009 · Mentions

  …from Minsky on his preference for sloppy, corrective programming: "Don't try to fix the bug, just put in some code that notices when it's about to happen, and heads it off." (From Stewart Brand's The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT.)

  on “Programming can exacerbate perfectionism. Why not intentionally introduce bugs as a cure?” ↗
• gnosis · Aug 5, 2013 · Mentions

  …the tension worse, not better." -- Stewart Brand [1] - spoken at the first Hackers' Conference, and reprinted in the May 1985 Whole Earth Review. The quotation is an elaboration from his book, The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT, published in 1987. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Brand#Aphorisms

  on “The Public-Private Surveillance Partnership” ↗