Everything I Know (1975)

I particularly love how clear his POV on design is. Put simply, he believes good design (and technology) boils down to doing more with less.

Others have written in reply that ephemeralization as he calls it (doing more with less) can help us solve physical problems. But it can also make non-physical problems worse. As systems become more complex and produce more information, the people who maintain them can have more difficulty and stress

That radius kept expanding and I became painfully aware that most of them were just sitting there, not doing anything useful at all.

Not a very original idea — I was familiar with SETI@Home — but it was weird to me how little it had caught on.

Most computers are just spinning their wheels most of the time. That's a lot of power just sitting there.

Kind of like the energy slave idea.

For me, it is notable that this is notable for you. This used to be as ubiquitous of a profession in modern organizations as typists were. Many people's entire job was going to meetings and/or listening to calls, transcribing the conversation, not just taking notes.

Professional stenographers transcribe in realtime with phonetic markers and everything. Even lightly trained transcriptionists can transcribe 1 hour of audio in 1.25-1.5 hours of wall clock time. For an amateur, you could probably get to a 1:2 ratio within a few hours. It's at max two full weeks of work.

At any rate, the videos just say "Video unavailable" / "This video is unavailable" although there are transcripts.