Suppose you work in an office with a secretary. This secretary’s job is to manage employee calendars, plan and schedule events, run errands, and do miscellaneous paperwork. Perhaps you don’t really get along with this secretary. Perhaps every time you ask the secretary to do something for you, he becomes upset with you. You may […]
When most people think of computers, they think of machines that are always logical, never forget, always follow precise instructions, react identically to identical inputs, and have no emotion. From this perspective, it sounds absurd to claim that humans are computers. Humans have drives and wills, computers don’t. Humans have emotions, computers don’t. Humans understand […]
About this Blog This blog started out as a self-help book, called “People: An API.” I wanted to share ideas I used to make sense of my interactions with other people. In short, I think of people as being computers. This probably sounds strange to you. You might imagine that thinking this way would cause […]