Doug Engelbart

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Recommended Readings on Doug Engelbart's Ideas

Think big, then think bigger.

The urgent necessity of collaboration. Problems scaling faster than our ability to solve them.

Continuous improvement. Improving at improvement.

Collective intelligence = ability to learn and adapt.

Dynamic Knowledge Repository. Specifically, role of artifact / "knowledge product." Doesn't have to be digital.

Doing good as a life goal.

Just because it's obvious doesn't mean you're doing it. Deceptive simplicity of Doug's ideas. The challenge is in the doing.

Bicycle as metaphor for performance. Expert-oriented tools. Co-evolution.

Depression. How you evaluate success. Emotional honesty. Rubber band blog post.

Importance of language.

Don't confuse binary concept with quality of execution.