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My Long Now Talk: SEEING WHOLE SYSTEMS
🕑 Added 2017-08-23 17:49:37 +0000 UTC Finally, the recorded video is online! Now you can watch me flail my arms around and act out the Boids algorithm with my body🎬 Seeing Whole Systems (Talk is 60 min long, Q&A is 20 min long)
In this talk, not only do I give you theory, I give you tools: the tools to draw and play with complex systems, so you can understand them for yourself! Also my talk has, like, 200+ hand-drawn slides. RIP my wrist.
Since my talk has lots of moments where I act things out with physical props, I decided not to do slides+transcript, since it would miss out a lot (besides, transcribing an hour-long talk would've taken forever) -- but, if you're short on time today, here's Stewart Brand's summary of my talk, on Medium! (3 min read)
Thank you all again for your support! UP NEXT: I'm currently re-designing the Explorable Explanations website, to include more examples, and more tools you can use to create your own interactive edu-things. See you soon!
P.S: I'll also send out the custom-drawing reward surveys out sometime before the end of the month, haaaaang in there
<3,
~ Nicky Case
Comments
Gaëtan Perrault
So I finally watched this 6 months later. Literally one week after discussing with my manager how my team needs to get "better at drawing" to explain things. This is so great on so many dimensions. I love it. I am reminded of Abby Covert's "How to make sense of any mess"... Like I now need this talk to be a book of that size as well :)
Nicky Case
Thanks for asking Jonathan! Confession: I was using a secondary source -- Alan Kay (of Xerox PARC fame) gave a talk in 1987, which is where I learnt about Hadamard's study & results! Full video of Alan Kay's talk: <a href="https://youtu.be/p2LZLYcu_JY?t=53m30s" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/p2LZLYcu_JY?t=53m30s</a> (he mentions Jacque Hadamard at 53:30)
Joan Rieu
Great talk!! And very interesting Q&A as well. Bravo!
melon d'eau douce
Thanks, this was breath-taking and delivered with brio ! Merci !
Jonathan
Are there actual numbers behind your graph of Hadamard's visual/tactile/verbal thinking? I'm looking through "The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field" and seeing that he took a survey but I don't see any tables of results or anything
DominoPivot
That was indeed very interesting, educative and in a way, heartwarming. It's nice to see the person behind the work.
Janel Torkington
Watched this whole thing. Faaaaantastic! I'm a recent supporter (found you through the Trust game that's been making the rounds) - super great to see you speaking publicly about the bigger impact of what you do.
