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no, he's not. this is his weakest presentation yet. he was on, but now he fell off. it's not making any sense that he's gone in this direction, and let last yea

no, he's not. this is his weakest presentation yet. he was on, but now he fell off. it's not making any sense that he's gone in this direction, and let last year's software ideas wither away on the vine. He should actually propel forward last year's ideas by at least releasing the stuff he said he'd open source on github. Instead, he hasn't done that, nor has he made his own commercial company (which would be a perfectly understandable route), but instead is giving lower quality talks that regurgitate material about observability that was way more profound when he shared it in relation to software, which by naturel, unlike hardware products, is unobservable.

DaniFong 12y ago
You should hesitate for a second; your arguments favor exploitation rather than exploration. Bret's work aims to move beyond 'the tiny rectangle' of computer screens, and companies are nearly decade scale commitments. Why not continue to produce great research before deciding upon the idea that's 'the one?' I realize this is antithetical to the prevailing theory of lean startups, but, from a deep research perspective, that is exactly why committing to support an open source project or a company is so dangerous. Soon you would have people depending upon you, and the freedom to explore vanishes.
anko 12y ago
I think with things like swift playground and lighttable which have been released due to a direct influence on Brett's work, maybe he's in exactly the right place? By discussion the broader concepts and getting people excited, he's probably getting more done than he could with a single company.
cryptnotic 12y ago
Bret is your typical genius visionary. He's bored by the thing that excited him last year.
faceyspacey 12y ago
nobody said don't do these talks. I'm saying just release the damn code along with it. like, i said, it makes zero sense if he's trying to help us all. The devil is in the details with coding and creation--the details of his partial implementations could help us all.

DaniFong 12y ago

You should hesitate for a second; your arguments favor exploitation rather than exploration. Bret's work aims to move beyond 'the tiny rectangle' of computer screens, and companies are nearly decade scale commitments. Why not continue to produce great research before deciding upon the idea that's 'the one?' I realize this is antithetical to the prevailing theory of lean startups, but, from a deep research perspective, that is exactly why committing to support an open source project or a company is so dangerous. Soon you would have people depending upon you, and the freedom to explore vanishes.

anko 12y ago

I think with things like swift playground and lighttable which have been released due to a direct influence on Brett's work, maybe he's in exactly the right place? By discussion the broader concepts and getting people excited, he's probably getting more done than he could with a single company.

cryptnotic 12y ago

Bret is your typical genius visionary. He's bored by the thing that excited him last year.

faceyspacey 12y ago

nobody said don't do these talks. I'm saying just release the damn code along with it. like, i said, it makes zero sense if he's trying to help us all. The devil is in the details with coding and creation--the details of his partial implementations could help us all.