Glen Chiacchieri

12/29/17

Prep

• How’s boston
  • What’s new?
  • Applying to schools?
  • Working on flowsheets?
• Happy to pay you…?
  • Or trade somehow?
• mission/principle/why
  • Before landmark
    • Everything felt meaningless
  • After landmark
    • Do what’s most fun
    • Most meaningful to me personally
    • Which was The Coding Space
  • Now
    • Difficult to choose path at branch, between different careers, products, books
      • FRP Scratch
        • But what problem does this solve for whom?
      • Video games
      • Work at Dynamicland
      • Be a writer or researcher
    • Feel like I need a more external principle than “most fun”
    • Other thoughts
      • Positive philosophy harder than negative
      • What do people actually want and care about vs my “bait-and-switch”
      • Worried we all become therapists
• Next Steps
  • Read a lot
    • But for how long?
    • What’s the structure?
    • When do I write?
  • Visit dynamicland
    • Talking with Luke
    • Considering working at dynamicland
    • Curious to hear more about what didn’t resonate with you

Notes

Thoughts about working on tools

Tools are not a prior a good thing for humanity. Is it a good thing that we have the internet now? I see my friends glued to their phones. It’s not clear if it’s a net positive for human happiness.

Laser socks in an afternoon seems like a clear good. Easy and fun and allows something to happen that previously was not possible.

The basic question of human happiness wasn’t there [when I was working at Dynamicland]. Part of this comes out of noticing I was miserable all of the time. I was thinking of who is this going to affect and how will this affect them?

Explorable explanations. Does understanding a topic such as segregation a bit more help solve racial segration? Maybe in the long-run. It doesn’t do it by itself.

There are a million ways to make people happy. Like creating a video game.

Everything we do is to try and make ourselves happy. People have bad ideas about what makes them happy.

Assisted self-study

Video chat is better. Let’s try facetime or google hangouts.