Bret Victor - Media for Thinking the Unthinkable

Why HN readers recommended it

HN treats it as one of the canonical Bret Victor talks, cited whenever discussion turns to better tools and interfaces for thinking.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Colin McDonnell

Topic

media for thinking

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

9

Recommendation years in dataset

2015–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• You make a great point about notations becoming more abstract for more advanced use cases, indeed this may be a "natural" process. However I'd like to add nuance with the observation that Bret may not be suggesting that we reverse the trend from abstract notation …

• What a great article - and the way it's presented is insanely great. It reminds me of a talk given by Bret Victor [VIDEO] (Media for Thinking the Unthinkable)

• For the people asking who is Bret Victor: When "What are your favourite tech talks of all time?" is asked on HN, he gets more mentions than anyone else, usually. Some of his talks: Inventing on Principle [LINK] The Future of Programming [LINK] The Humane …