Steal From The Best

Steal From The Best

Bret Victor

Inventing new ways to use computers

Ideas

Interface designer Bret Victor explains why creators need to see what they're doing

2:18

Interface designer Bret Victor explains how Watson and Crick used models to discover DNA’s structure

0:50

Bret Victor explains why creators need an immediate connection to what they make

2:10

Computer scientist Bret Victor: “Not opportunity but responsibility”

2:11

Interface designer Bret Victor explains why Larry Tesler eliminated modes

2:15

Interface designer Bret Victor explains why we need smarter materials

0:55

Bret Victor on why engineering and authoring are different activities

2:16

Bret Victor: “A principle can't just be any old thing you believe in”

1:37

Interface designer Bret Victor explains why papers should show the picture in the author’s head

1:55

Bret Victor: “Take time and put it into the maker’s hands”

0:44

Interface designer Bret Victor on how tools let us think unthinkable thoughts

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Interface designer Bret Victor on why we need dynamic physical matter to think with our hands

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Interface designer Bret Victor: “What you need here are seeing tools”

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Intro

▶️The Future of Programming32:55 · 31 Jul 2013

▶️Inventing on Principle54:20 · 22 Feb 2012

Deep

✍️Learnable Programming

📝Inventing on Principle (full transcript)40 min read

✍️Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction

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Alan KayComputer scientist who developed Smalltalk

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Richard FeynmanNobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist

David Heinemeier HanssonCreator of Ruby on Rails and CTO of 37Signals

Mitchell HashimotoCo-founder of HashiCorp and creator of Ghostty

Peter SteinbergerCreator of OpenClaw