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The opening essays of Paul Graham’s present a disparate series of ideas and ideologies, indiscriminately interwoven in an unabashed stream-of-consciousness prose. In truth, therein lie too many proposals – most times, stated like self-evident facts – to give his abstract yet deeply personal linked ideals justice. There is much within that I heartily agree with, … Read More “Reading 04: Nerds and Hackers, Art and Arrogance” »
In the third act of Steven Levy’s book we see the first generation of hackers who had garnered interest in their craft not out of intellectual curiosity or a sense of community understanding. Rather, as Ken Williams best put it, out of greed. Ken Williams entered the world of programming not due to any duty … Read More “Reading 03: Game Hackers, Gone Hopes” »
In the second act of Steven Levy’s book, we switch coasts to the emergence of the original Silicon Valley: following the stories of hackers cut from a different cloth such as Lee Felsenstein, and their involvement in the rise and fall of the Homebrew Computer Club – with the looming might of multimillion corporations on … Read More “Reading 02: Hardware Hackers, Heartfelt Harbingers” »