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Compassion & Programming: Glen Chiacchieri

Published: July 3, 2018, 4:23 p.m.

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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.

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In this conversation, we discuss:

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  • how he grounds his research in compassion,
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  • the tradeoffs between working on the "model vs UI" of programming,
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  • his software-company-in-the-making, based on Flowsheets,
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  • our shared dream for the future of open-source READMEs,
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  • and how Dynamicland does and does not point towards the future.
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The notes for this conversation can be found at futureofcoding.org/episodes/26.

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