Web of Ideas with Paul Graham
Berkman Fellow David Weinberger interviews Paul Graham, software guru, entrepreneur, essayist and painter.
In a recent essay, “Taste for Makers,” Paul argues that successful design, from math to software to painting, relies on the same aesthetic principles. Taste is therefore not a matter of subjectively appreciating fine works but is a required capability for creating great software. But is taste as timeless as Paul suggests? Do the design principles Paul points to result from aesthetic or functional characteristics? And why should we think that the visual and the programmatic, the artistic and the functional, the physical and the virtual might all be beautiful in similar ways?
Produced by Indigo Tabor and Colin Rhinesmith.
Jeffrey Hoffman Yip
November 11, 2006 @ 4:46 pm
I asked Paul Graham some questions about funding young artists with Venture Capital (which you can listen to in the last 30 minutes of the recording). I’ve written about my thoughts from my discussion with Paul Graham here: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jeffyip/
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November 14, 2006 @ 1:51 am
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November 14, 2006 @ 8:47 am
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December 17, 2006 @ 1:19 pm
[...] I’m proud to say that he was stimulated to do this in small part by my interview of him (video) at the Berkman Center. I’d like to think I annoyed him just enough to push him over the edge to write the new essay [...]