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Alan Kay's lectures on youtube are mostly about (critical) thinking and how to educate your own thinking. Each of his talks is aimed at a different audience but
by morphle 4y ago
Alan Kay's lectures on youtube are mostly about (critical) thinking and how to educate your own thinking. Each of his talks is aimed at a different audience but all address your question. For our HN audience the 1997 OOPSLA talk [1] is a place to start, or the "How to Invent the Future I - Stanford CS183F: Startup School" talks [2].
There are many recommendations of books to read to develop your thinking.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id1WShzzMCQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id1WShzzMCQ
- BOOSTERHIDROGEN 4y agoMind sharing the books list? thanks
- morphle 4y agoAlan mentions all the books in the talks and shows the front page. Sorry, it takes to much time right now to order, edit and prioritise the list of books for you. I'll try to append that to this thread later this week. You can contact me on morphle at ziggo dot nl and we can have an interactive session where I can shower you with critical thinking resources from Alan Kay, Marvin Minksy and a few others. Book references: Human Blindspots and “Bad Brains”: Francis Bacon, “Novum Organum Scientia” Daniel Kanneman, “Thinking: Fast and Slow” Robert Meyer, Howard Kunreuthner, “The Ostrich Paradox” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases Alfred Korzybski, “Science and Sanity” YouTube: “How To Catch A Baboon” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctol7JwpcuQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctol7JwpcuQ Exemplary Practices and Perspectives: Amory Lovins, “Reinventing Fire” E.F. Schumaker, “Small Is Beautiful” Christopher Alexander, “Notes on the Synthesis of Form” from: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/Kay_How.pdf http://www.vpri.org/pdf/Kay_How.pdf http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/alan-kay-books https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/alan-kay-books https://wiki.c2.com/?AlanKaysReadingList https://wiki.c2.com/?AlanKaysReadingList https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/alan-kay-books https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/alan-kay-books I know there must be lots more if you search online, there is even a HN post with a book list written by Alan himself. I have gathered the books on these lists and all the video's of the talks in a 500 GB torrent. Maybe you can help organise it so we can publish it here? Talks: https://tinlizzie.org/IA/index.php/Talks_by_Alan_Kay https://tinlizzie.org/IA/index.php/Talks_by_Alan_Kay https://www.mprove.de/visionreality/media/kay.html https://www.mprove.de/visionreality/media/kay.html