On creating the closest bond between music and image:

“When a really difficult thing is being worked on and you get synergy from the small team in just the right way, you can’t describe it.” —Alan Kay

One thing they do really well is they have a way of observing the good, true, and beautiful in people very precisely and conveying it to them and to others, so everyone starts to see that in each other. Attention has a very “moral” quality, and also a story-telling quality

This development happens in a sequence of stages that result in “dramatic differences in ability to apprehend, generalize and predict” factors of causality

Picking this back up again! This section gets into the specs of the Dynabook, focusing on its portability, display, and storage: 1) no larger than a notebook, not to exceed 4 lbs; 2) visual display must be at least 4000 characters with contrast ratios close to that of printed text — Kay was likely looking to address eye strain here; 3) removable local file storage of 1M characters or greater (~500 pages) with options to tradeoff against audio files I adore how each spec requirement is actually written in terms of a *physical* book 📖 – at San Francisco, CA

Form-fit tools:

I quite like the framing of “collaborating with the context” via gradual adjustments by creating a feedback loop

Brother asking me what’s my ideal Christmas present 🧐 🤔🎄 💝

Reading — “The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine” by Stewart Brand

"The magic happens when the contextual needs drive the tool."