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remix: beyond rip, mix, burn.

Amazon DevCon - Rael Dornfest speech

Some Quotables:

A hacker is a tinkerer, not a bad guy. An experimenter, take stuff apart and see what happens. Put on a brave front, pop the top, see what happens

the conversation is its own reward

Hacks are a conversation. Hacks are remixing

If your customers are breaking your stuff in a certain way, they are telling you what your product should be


The gospel of openness is spreading

Watch what the customers do, team up with them.

Remix your data. Scraping begat XML which begat APIs. Hacks led to standards which led to business opportunity. Syndicated ecommerce. Google/Amazon/Alexa, Amazon/eBay for buying and selling, etc

Lesson: There are parts of the platform that you don't have to own


Remix your text, T-shirt, "I'm blogging this." Excited some people, unnerved man


Software wants to be social. Rendezvous, let devices find each other. Bluetooth hacks. Conferences have been transformed by the back channel (IRC, blogs, etc.). Presence is being redefined. Must allow people to snipe. Limiting to positive stuff changes dynamic and kills it. Virtual participation.

It is all about people and connections to each other

Rap On

Bravo to Paul Graham for his advice to high school students.

Paul Graham: What You'll Wish You'd Known in high school:

"Your teachers are always telling you to behave like adults. I wonder if they'd like it if you did. You may be loud and disorganized, but you're very docile compared to adults. If you actually started acting like adults, it would be just as if a bunch of adults had been transposed into your bodies. Imagine the reaction of an FBI agent or taxi driver or reporter to being told they had to ask permission to go the bathroom, and only one person could go at a time. To say nothing of the things you're taught. If a bunch of actual adults suddenly found themselves trapped in high school, the first thing they'd do is form a union and renegotiate all the rules with the administration

The entire essay is a pleasure to read, as always from Paul.

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