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Glen Chiacchieri

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.

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