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wanted to know about it right away so we could reproduce the error and release a fix. So at Viaweb the developers were always in close contact with support. The customer support people were about thirty feet away from the programmers, and knew they could always interrupt anything with a report of a genuine bug. We would leave a board meeting to fix a serious bug.

Hackers & Painters - Big Ideas From the Computer Age

Paul Graham

The unit of processing in the neocortex is the cortical column. Each column is a complete sensory-motor system—that is, it gets inputs and it can generate behaviors. With every movement, a column predicts what its next input will be. Prediction is how a column tests and updates its model.

A Thousand Brains_ A New Theory of Intelligence

Jeff Hawkins

Your philosophy is the single most important navigational point on your leadership compass.

The Score Takes Care of Itself

Bill Walsh

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