Interview: Mark Seemann on /Blindsight/ and /Thinking, Fast and Slow/

Oddly Influenced

Mark Seemann

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• Code That Fits in Your Head, 2021

The books

• Peter Watts, Blindsight, 2006. Goodreads description. Or: free at the author's site.
• Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, 2011

Also mentioned

• Read Montague, Why Choose This Book?: How We Make Decisions, 2006
• Felienne Hermans, The Programmer's Brain, 2021
• George A. Miller, "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two", 1956
• Rich Hickey, "Hammock-Driven Development" (video), 2010
• Peter Watts, Echopraxia, 2014
• Poincaré's 1904 essay on creativity is described (with extensive quotes) in this article. The original source for the essay is his book The Foundations of Science, starting on page 179, a chapter titled "Mathematical Creation". The book is freely available for Kindle and in other formats via the Wayback Machine.
• Jamis Buck, Mazes for Programmers: Code Your Own Twisty Little Passages, 2015
• Richard P. Gabriel, Patterns of Software, 1996. Free at the author's site.

Credits

The image of Theseus, the spaceship in Blindsight, is from a page from Peter Watts' website. The image is not marked Creative Commons, though the whole novel is, so I'm hoping Mr. Watts won't mind.