Stewart Brand
Person on 2 sites
Founder of the Whole Earth Catalog and co-founder of the Long Now Foundation; writer on environmentalism, technology and long-term thinking.
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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5 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Beginning of Infinity (opens rcmnd.app)
“I recommend David Deutsch's uh The Beginning of Infinity. It's basically optimism at a cosmic level. And it's full of the realization that there are always problems. And there are solutions. And that goes on…”
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The Perfectionists (opens rcmnd.app)
“I recommend a book by Simon Winchester called The Perfectionists, How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World. And then uh I wound up revisiting uh when I was I did a section on manuals. And so, the great manuals…”
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The Scottish Enlightenment (opens rcmnd.app)
“The Scottish Enlightenment um so they they were very impressed by and they all studied uh Diderot's Encyclopedia and they came up with their own encyclopedia called the Encyclopedia Britannica which which went from…”
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The Beginning of Infinity (opens rcmnd.app)