Alan Kay, Systems, and Textbooks « Theatrical Smoke - 3 views
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I discuss his key idea: that systemic thinking is a liberal art, and I explain a corollary idea, that textbooks suck
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if you don’t have a category for an idea, it’s very difficult to receive that idea
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the story of the last few hundred years is that we’ve quickly developed important ideas, which society needs to have to improve and perhaps even to continue to exist, and for which there are no pre-existing, genetically created categories. So there’s an idea-receiving capacity gap.
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