Viral Topic – Coding as Modern Magic: "we have had this desire for millennia in our stories and for being able to use text and language to coerce the world around us. And now I guess since the 75, 80 odd years since the modern digital computer, we now have that where you can actually write text and it can do things in the real world."

Viral Topic: The Lost History of Tech
Quote: "I do think actually being steeped in the path dependence and the history of technology can actually be very valuable to understand where we are and realize that a lot of the things that we might think are new, they actually have this, this long history."

Viral Topic: Unconventional Computing
"Which shows that computing, it can be kind of this much broader kind of space and kind of traditional computer science is almost like this, like one little area and maybe biology is just another area and there should be this weird high dimensional space that we actually should be exploring more."

The Fleeting Nature of Software and the Human Condition: "And I think just kind of having that sense that you are making an impact and you're doing something, but it's not necessarily going to last is almost kind of a microcosm of the human condition, which is recognizing like we're on this planet for a fleeting amount of time."

Viral Topic – Coders as Modern Wizards: "The coder as the wizard and I mentioned this idea that code is right."

The Hidden Cost of Progress: "So we're, we're adding more and more functions and functionality over time. Or if you're building software, you might build it on top of other things you don't fully understand. And that can be very powerful. But that alongside with like interconnection or just dealing with kind of the complexity of the world around us means that you end up with this very complex system that is built in a way that our brains are not really, well, like, well, well evolved to understand like we are."

Viral Topic: The Evolution of Programming
"They are all part of the process of being able to kind of instantiate ideas that you have in your mind and actually have a computer do these kinds of things."

Viral Topic: Open Source as Modern Mythology: "ancient mythological tales almost had a sort of open source kind of community around them where you might have, you have a, like, you have like the Greek gods and you have their relationships and then it's like certain people would add certain stories and then maybe those would get passed on or people would modify them and eventually the, the best ones kind of had lasting power."

The Danger of Slowly Changing Knowledge: "Those are sometimes the most dangerous areas of knowledge because you often learn them in the same way you learn things that never change and then you forget to mentally update it."

Viral Topic: How the Internet Impacts Memory and Knowledge

"I think the flip side of that though is that constantly actually looking things up can mean that you are more likely to be, to have access to the most up to date knowledge as opposed to things that were kind of half remembered that you learned that are not actually accurate anymore."