26 - Compassion & Programming: Glen Chiacchieri

07/03/18

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.

Links

• Glen’s website
• Glen on Twitter
• Magic Ink
• Inventing on Principle
• Alan Kay Wiki
• Legible Mathematics
• Media for Thinking the Unthinkable
• Research Agenda Floorplan
• Flowsheets
• Dynamicland
• Laser Socks
• Fuzzyset explaination