For years I’ve tried to blend art and science in my work. Even with limited talent and limited success, over many years I’ve amassed a body of work some find interesting, and over time, as the master recommends, I will endeavor to put it all here for you to have. Here’s how Henry put it: Let us suppose, valleys & such ago, |
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Featured PagesDaily Poems (2023): (The Lace Remains [pdf]) 100 Poems Imitating 100 Translations [pdf], a collection of poems Life Takes Place [pdf] AI: Winter of Our Discontent, keynote at Onward! 2024 / Splash 2024 The Art of Deep Shepherding [pdf] Christopher Alexander Memorial [pdf] John McCarthy: Stories [pdf] Stray Thoughts on “Old Masters and Young Geniuses” [pdf] Notes on “Notes on the Synthesis of Form” [pdf] Notes on “Notes on the Synthesis of Form”: The Presentation [pdf] A Pattern Language for Writers' Workshops [pdf] Conferences & Остраннeние [pdf] Notes for “Notes on "Notes" ” [pdf] Notes on “A Result in Visual Aesthetics” [pdf] A Search for Beauty / A Struggle with Complexity: Christopher Alexander [pdf] History of Programming Languages IV [HOPL] Tuned Adrenaline: A Beat-Boogied Headful [pdf], a chapbook in memory of Ron Goldman "in the control room of the banquet" [pdf] InkWell: A Creative Writer's Creative Assistant [pdf] I Throw Itching Powder at Tulips [pdf] The Structure of a Programming Language Revolution [pdf] Waltz in Illinois [pdf] Defamiliarization: Flarf, Conceptual Writing, and Using Flawed Software Tools as Creative Partners [workshop version: 1 mb pdf] [journal version: pdf] Better Science Through Art (2.1 mb pdf) Worse is Better, full paper, history, and responses The Rise of Worse is Better, the part everyone talks about Science is Not Enough: On the Creation of Software [script (pdf)][slides (6.8mb pdf)] Designed as Designer, an essay on design and creativity A Pattern of Language Evolution Books I've written [New: Drive On (poetry); Innovation Happens Elsewhere (open source)Jolt Productivity Award Winner; pdf of final typeset version of Writers' Workshop now available] Kholstomer: The History of a Horse by Leo Tolstoy |
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