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Why on Earth is Alan Kay on Quora?
by caiocaiocaio 7y ago
Why on Earth is Alan Kay on Quora?
- krapp 7y agoWhy on Earth is Alan Kay on Hacker News?
- goatlover 7y agoWhy on Earth not?
- caiocaiocaio 7y agoIt feels like a worse and more ridiculous version of Yahoo Answers. Half the answerers don't know what they're talking about and half are marketing departments.
- steveeq1 7y agoI think he's a fan of collective intelligence. Maybe he feels quora is a good implementation of this concept.
- pchristensen 7y agoHe is very accessible, concerned about preserving knowledge from a previous generation of computing, and not worried about his brand of self promotion. So he goes where interesting discussions are happening - he has been on HN a number of times (user https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alankay1 https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alankay1, AMA - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939851 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939851) I met him at a conference 10 years ago - I basically blew off the whole conference to sit at his feet in the lobby while he told stories and shared pearls. There were 3-4 of us, probably 30-40 years younger than him, and we were all nobodies, but he didn't care. One of my favorite experiences ever.
- steveeq1 7y agoWhat conference was this? Curious.
- teddyh 7y ago> I basically blew off the whole conference to sit at his feet in the lobby This implies that he also blew off the whole conference. I wonder why he did that. > There were 3-4 of us, probably 30-40 years younger than him, and we were all nobodies I would hope that this isn’t the reason. Being famous and “holding court” like this is probably addictive.