I've been going through @Meaningness's further reading list at https://meaningness.com/further-reading recently-ish and granted I've been picking and choosing heavily but so far they've basically all been winners.
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Also, Orr’s opinion was that, although the corp did very reluctantly implement something, they missed most of the opportunity that he pointed out. They explicitly hated the idea of empowering field techs and tried to limit that as much as possible.
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Although Project Eureka came out of his work, it was not what he envisioned, and he was barred from having input into it. (There was intense internal PARC politics around this that I was very tangentially involved with at the time.)
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Yeah, but programmers read all sorts of less relevant stuff (or *say* they do). I guess what I'm really thinking is the "Books programmers read in order to pretend they're intellectuals" canon. e.g. Godel Escher Bach, Seeing Like A State, How Buildings Learn. Probably others.
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I would love to see this added to that list!
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