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Paul Tarvydas 2023-08-15 09:55:54

I enjoyed this book so much, that I’m listening to it a second time: “To Sell Is Human” by Daniel H. Pink.

Paul Tarvydas 2023-08-15 09:56:46

This book is not directly related to Computer Science, but, I hope that it will help me write better blogs and create better slide decks and think more deeply about the atomic units of computering.

I think that the “5 Whys” technique described by Pink is related to “First Principles Thinking” fs.blog/first-principles , used by Elon Musk, and, to me, leads to a better understanding of Computer Science.

📝 First Principles: The Building Blocks of True Knowledge

First Principles thinking breaks down true understanding into building blocks we can reassemble into something that simplifies our problem.

Christopher Shank 2023-08-20 05:14:32

“Myths and Mythconceptions:

What does it mean to be a programming language, anyhow?” by Mary Shaw (2021)

dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3480947

Christopher Shank 2023-08-20 05:32:56

(I could see this being a good candidate for the podcast Ivan Reese )

Ivan Reese 2023-08-20 06:13:11

Funny — we were just looking at this one!

Christopher Shank 2023-08-20 15:35:54

Ha as I was reading through, I kept hearing your muffled radio voice narrating parts of the paper.

Konrad Hinsen 2023-08-21 06:56:39

See also 💬 #of-end-user-programming@2023-07-01T16:43:28.028Z

[July 1st, 2023 9:43 AM] konrad.hinsen: A paper worth reading that (among other topics) argues that end-user programming should better be called vernacular programming: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3480947

Christopher Shank 2023-08-22 04:21:27

Ah i knew i saw this paper linked here Konrad Hinsen