Posts tagged with "reflection"

I came upon this awesome TED talk on “Why You Should Make Useless Things” by Simone Giertz thanks to Mikael Pawlo. The talk really resonated with me and articulated thoughts I have had for a long time.

I learned how to program BASIC from a book 37 years ago, one year before I actually saw and touched a real computer. A few months later I got my first computer, a Commodore VIC20. The first year I had it I didn’t have the tape recorder that allowed me to save my programs. So for a year whatever I did was ephemeral - as soon as I turned of the computer the program was gone. Sort of like a Groundhog Day version of Global Day of Code Retreat.