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Architecture awards and relationships (Derek Sivers married today)

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Even when sharing good news, he does it in a way that his readers can find insightful.

The title is Sivers' roundabout way of saying he's getting married today - while sharing a useful perspective for everyone else. :)

Always nice to hear when the good guy gets the girl.

I'm not sure about that...Sivers seems more like a bad-ass that appears like a good guy.

What do you mean? Can't a bad-ass be a good guy?

Congrats sivers !

The book he mentions is the best book I've read about software architecture that will never be found in the Technical/Computer books section. I've given away at least five copies as Thank You gifts. The beauty of the book is that he presents such a convincing case for the importance of adaptability and a core architecture to enable that - that you start to view the codebase you are working on, heck, even your life through the perspective of: "what decisions am I making now that might impact the ability to change"

'97 BBC series http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8639555925486210852#

It seems the author himself uploaded the videos and encourages their use. Amazing.

Stewart Brand was a pioneer in sharing information even before information was easily shareable (2400 baud modems)

"In late 1968, Brand assisted electrical engineer Douglas Engelbart with The Mother of All Demos, a famous presentation of many revolutionary computer technologies (including the mouse) to the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco.

Brand surmised that, given the necessary consciousness, information, and tools, human beings might reshape the world they had made (and were making) for themselves into something environmentally and socially sustainable. The fact that he had builders, designers, and engineers as friends surely influenced his reasoning."

Father of The WELL (One of the first and most influential BBS)

And: Whole Earth Catalog

More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Catalog

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Brand

Smart guy, great writer, successful entrepreneur, pretty woman -- all of this is full of win. Congrats to both!

Hooray! One more person finds his way out of the darkness.

Are you saying single life is dark?

I should have been more specific:

> a great relationship is not something you find. It's something you (both) make.

This is something many people haven't figured out. I was happy to see one more who now has.

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