The Future of Coding podcast features interviews with toolmakers, researchers, computational artists, educators, and engineers, all with compelling viewpoints on what the future of computing could be.

Compassion & Programming: Glen Chiacchieri

July 03, 2018 1:52:14 107.75 MB Downloads: 0

Glen Chiacchieri has worked at the MIT Media Lab on Scratch, at Dynamicland with Bret Victor, and is now becoming a psychotherapist. He's known for his Legible Mathematics essay, his Flowsheets programming prototypes, and the Laser Socks game, among many other projects.

In this conversation, we discuss:

  • how he grounds his research in compassion,
  • the tradeoffs between working on the "model vs UI" of programming,
  • his software-company-in-the-making, based on Flowsheets,
  • our shared dream for the future of open-source READMEs,
  • and how Dynamicland does and does not point towards the future.

The notes for this conversation can be found at futureofcoding.org/episodes/26.

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