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The Cognitive Connection: Thought and Language in Man and Machine

Begins with a disclaimer that it contains at least one error — which turns out to be a giant understatement. The book is riddled with errors, but has a great attitude. Touches on many of the weirder beliefs people have held about logic and language through history (for example, the "logic machines" of Ramon Llull.)

Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community

By he of "worse is better" fame.

Kind of goes all over the place, but worthwhile for its comparison of object-oriented programming to poetic compression, and for making a case that beauty may not be subjective.

Tossing Algebraic Flowers down the Great Divide

The \"Self-Valorizing Vanity\" of Philosophers - Daily Nous

What, if anything, can be said about what is unsayable? \| Aeon Essays

HTMLGIANT / The Beginner's Guide to Hegel

What does post-truth mean for a philosopher? - BBC News

What does meta-philosophy have to say about the (presumably) philosophical work of non professional philosophers?

The Philosophy of Computer Science (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Alan Kay on Marshal McLuhan and the Personal Computer

The Deep Insights of Alan Kay - mythz blog