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Bret Victor is one of the great people working in computing (not computer science) today. I expect something paradigm-shifting from him in the coming years.

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I'd never come across his site or anything by his hand before, and feel like I've missed out on a lot.

On the upside, I'm excited at going through all of his archives. I haven't felt inspired like this in quite a while.

You feel exactly the same way I do.

This is a good example of how to make a high-confidence prediction about the future: look for something that's already happened, and predict that it will have happened soon.

In other words: he's already published paradigm-shifting things!

Obviously hidden in my statement was the assumption that what he's produced so far is not paradigm-shifting stuff. But go ahead, be snarky.

Is that because you haven't read Magic Ink, or because you have read it and you don't think it's "paradigm-shifting"?

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