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Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today

1401 points alankay | 2 comments | 20 Jun 16 18:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.403s | source

This request originated via recent discussions on HN, and the forming of HARC! at YC Research. I'll be around for most of the day today (though the early evening).
1. mej10 ◴[20 Jun 16 18:28 UTC] No.11940080[source]▶
What is your recommendation to someone wanting to get into the kind of research you do?
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2. alankay1 ◴[20 Jun 16 22:30 UTC] No.11942116[source]▶
"No one owes more to his research community than I do"

I lucked into the ARPA community 50 years ago (without even knowing that it existed).

A good start is to find people and places that are doing things you think are interesting ...