{"id":194,"date":"2006-11-09T18:17:12","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T22:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/2006\/11\/09\/web-of-ideas-with-paul-graham\/"},"modified":"2007-09-26T00:08:33","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T04:08:33","slug":"web-of-ideas-with-paul-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/2006\/11\/09\/web-of-ideas-with-paul-graham\/","title":{"rendered":"Web of Ideas with Paul Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media-cyber.law.harvard.edu\/AudioBerkman\/Files\/paulgraham_1911_780774.gif\" align=\"right\" \/>Berkman Fellow <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/home\/david_weinberger\">David Weinberger<\/a> interviews <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/bio.html\">Paul  Graham<\/a>, software guru, entrepreneur, essayist and painter.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent  essay, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/taste.html\">Taste for Makers<\/a>,&#8221; Paul argues that successful design, from math  to software to painting, relies on the same aesthetic principles. Taste  is therefore not a matter of subjectively appreciating fine works but is  a required capability for creating great software. But is taste as  timeless as Paul suggests? Do the design principles Paul points to  result from aesthetic or functional characteristics? And why should we  think that the visual and the programmatic, the artistic and the  functional, the physical and the virtual might all be beautiful in  similar ways?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media-cyber.law.harvard.edu\/AudioBerkman\/Files\/hear-it-black.gif\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/media-cyber.law.harvard.edu\/AudioBerkman\/paul_graham_2006-11-08.mp3\">Download<\/a> the MP3 (time: 1:19:07).<\/p>\n<p>Produced by Indigo Tabor and Colin Rhinesmith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berkman Fellow David Weinberger interviews Paul Graham, software guru, entrepreneur, essayist and painter. In a recent essay, &#8220;Taste for Makers,&#8221; Paul argues that successful design, from math to software to painting, relies on the same aesthetic principles. Taste is therefore not a matter of subjectively appreciating fine works but is a required capability for creating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[956,681,714,696],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-berkman-center","category-david-weinberger","category-web-of-ideas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}