Glen Chiacchieri has worked at the MIT Media Lab on Scratch, at Dynamicland with Bret Victor, and is now becoming a psychotherapist. He's known for his Legible Mathematics essay, his Flowsheets programming prototypes, and the Laser Socks game, among many other projects.

In this conversation, we discuss:
how he grounds his research in compassion,
the tradeoffs between working on the "model vs UI" of programming,
his software-company-in-the-making, based on Flowsheets,
our shared dream for the future of open-source READMEs,
and how Dynamicland does and does not point towards the future.

The notes for this conversation can be found at futureofcoding.org/episodes/26.

Glen Chiacchieri has worked at the MIT Media Lab on Scratch, at Dynamicland with Bret Victor, and is now becoming a psychotherapist. He's known for his Legible Mathematics essay, his Flowsheets programming prototypes, and the Laser Socks game, among many other projects.
In this conversation, we discuss:
<ul>
<li>how he grounds his research in compassion,</li>
<li>the tradeoffs between working on the "model vs UI" of programming,</li>
<li>his software-company-in-the-making, based on Flowsheets,</li>
<li>our shared dream for the future of open-source READMEs,</li>
<li>and how Dynamicland does and does not point towards the future.</li>
</ul>
The notes for this conversation can be found at <a href="futureofcoding.org/episodes/26">futureofcoding.org/episodes/26</a>.

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Playful explorations of the rich past and exciting future that we're all building with our silly little computers. Hosted by Jimmy Miller and Ivan Reese.

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