[adamgordonbell]

This being posted years ago led me to reach out to Paul and ultimately interview him.

It was super fun! You can shoot him an email from his website and he's definitely worth chatting with. He's on hacker news sometimes as well.

He has many wild stories! Steve Jobs melting his software by leaving the disk out in the sun. Being homeless. Working at the JPL. I think he had a hard childhood and went his own way.

https://corecursive.com/remote-developer/

[lioeters]

Oh wow, what a treat, an entire interview with the author! I posted this link because I loved his story of living in an off-grid mountain cabin with a computer, programming Apple Writer. After the success of the software, it sounded like he bought a little private airplane ("Mooney 201"), and the description of him flying along the Oregon coast stayed in my mind, what a character.

It feels like the tech scene used to be populated by more people like him, who didn't quite fit in with society and had strong personalities. I'm sure they still exist, just harder to recognize in the bigger crowd. Anyway, I enjoy meeting and hearing stories from colorful old timers like him. Thanks for mentioning the interview, I'm looking forward to listening to it.

[adamgordonbell]

Yeah, he has Steve Wozniak energy as well. Just doing things for the joy he gets from it.