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If, as the brilliant mathematician Edsger Dijkstra said, “computing is about controlling complexity,” then the body of work produced by the computer industry’s programmers has entirely failed.
Anna-Sofia Lesiv • Criticizing Computers
When you liberate programming from the requirement to be professional and scalable, it becomes a different activity altogether, just as cooking at home is really nothing like cooking in a commercial kitchen. I can report to you: not only is this different activity rewarding in almost exactly the same way that cooking for someone you love is rewardi... See more
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The early vision was to democratize software creation. We all felt we had this crazy superpower of being able to build software, which had given us these advantages in our careers. You can have tremendous influence in an organization — even if you’re not in leadership — by building software and deploying it to people. So broadly, we were exploring
... See moreFirst Round Capital • Airtable's Path to Product-Market Fit
So, while their mission was, and still is, “to make it possible for everyone to shape the tools that shape their lives” by building LEGO-style software — they focused on a different approach to getting there.
Jaryd Hermann • How Notion Grows
