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by ssivark 2780 days ago
It takes courage to aim big and risk failure, so I applaud the effort behind LightTable and Eve.

For all the effort invested to not be in vain, it is important for the community to be able to learn (generalizable) lessons from these failures. Hence the typical focus on putting out a product, even if not complete, and publishing a paper, to close out a line of research.

When I try to look for an understandable summary of lessons learned from LT/Eve, I get the feeling that the tidbits are a little scattered, and not quite in a form manifestly usable by the community. Have you solicited suggestions about how this could be improved? For starters, it would be great if there could be a centralized repository listing all the various blog posts, talks, etc during the evolution of LT/Eve and the retrospectives. If that already exists, it would be great to publicize it more, and the community could organize around that and discuss how to take it further. There's a lot of excitement about the direction LT/Eve pioneered and it would be good to harness it for the next round of attempts :-)

Also, I don't mean to imply that the LT/Eve team has not done that -- eg: thanks for open sourcing LT! I'm just thinking out loud about how to better pass on the less tangible learnings.
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cmontella 2780 days ago
That's a good suggestion. I'll do a little makeshift one here :)

Blog posts are mostly here: http://incidentalcomplexity.com and a couple here: http://www.chris-granger.com

Talks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_4ecWDohnk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V1ynVyud4M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DShccXxyiAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZQoAKJPbh8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_o-ZzgpiK8

Prototypes are collected here:

https://github.com/witheve/eve-experiments

I'll try to make this nicer and put it on our homepage.

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