Great tools can enable co-creation between humans and computers. Molly Mielke joins Mark and Adam to talk about her thesis on the subject. They discuss product design as a fusion of creative and analytical; how consumer preferences may conflict with the Engelbart/Kay vision of computing; the emerging social norms of collaborative software; and why we should bring back skeuomorphism.

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Show notes

• Molly Mielke
• Whole Earth Catalog and Stewart Brand
• biopic
• Abstract
• Computing History Hub
• senioritis
• episode with Andy Matuschak
• Kid Pix
• Computers and Creativity
• The Mother of All Demos
• TRON
• Balint Orosz on toolmaker humility
• episode with Nikolas Klein
• CVS and Subversion
• LaTeX
• Always Has Been meme
• flow state
• deep work
• operational transform, CRDTs
• Tuckman’s stages of group development
• the Satir change model
• Writely
• skeuomorphism