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Geoff Cohen: I particularly liked both the content and the organization of this precentation at ETCON. I'm jotting them down here as I want to think about them more deeply later.
Lessons from biology:
- Embrace legacy
- Try everything
- Pay attention
- Reflect
- Change
- Be fruitful and multiply
- Stay loose
- Work bottom up
- Plan top down
- Rest in peace
Challenges:
- Accept complexity
- Reform the guild
- Abandon computation
- Do we need a new language?
- What we must give up (certainty)
In the system he is working on, the only things one can do is emit and accept. One can't even name another component as that is the first step down the slippery slope of tight coupling.