Claude Shannon

Founders #95

• Shannon was just having fun.
• Doing what comes naturally >>> usefulness (26m)
  • “The world is not to be used, but to be played with—manipulated by hand and mind”revisit
    • Is world as you make it as long as it obeys the laws of physics? Truth is about correspondence, but truth allows so much as long as it respects the laws of physics.revisit
    • revisit theories need data note. Truth is about what rules out. But life is about what’s allowed. It’s in the leeway, as it were…
• Shannon and market (28m~)
• vannevar bush: specialization is the death of genius (29m)
• he did most of his work at home (36m)
• he extended ralph hartley’s work (41m)revisit
  • relate with take ideas seriously notes
  • relate with idea has timing notes (e.g., Bezos and Sinegal and Walton, Buffett and Singleton, and Jobs and Landrevisit)
• he wasn’t in for the money, it was just fun (48m)
  • relate with fun criterion
• investment in teledyne (50m)
• basic company stuff >>> price quotations (52m)
• long-term stuff >>> short-term stuff (52m)
  • relate with the world is too short-term oriented memes and notes
• study innovators instead of politicians (57m)