Friends,
Today please enjoy the latest episode of TPP Podcast. As a special thank you for subscribing, we’re sharing it here first before we publish it on iTunes or Spotify.
Today it’s all about one my favorite philosophical characters of all time—Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Scott Diddams, who runs post-production on TPP also happens to be an SDE at Microsoft. He had this to say about Wittgenstein after working on this episode and I wanted to share:
I think programmers who work in multiple languages would empathize pretty well with Wittgenstein - at first principles, code, translated through a runtime to bytecode and some more layers elicits a series of zeroes and ones, which physically represent an engineered void that is filled or empty - much like neurobiology has shown us that all that we understand and attempt to articulate to each other elicits a series of neurons in the brain either firing, or not (through connections/voids that exist or not), to produce in our mind's eye that which words cannot describe - making it, of course, difficult to know if we've ever really understood each other - as Ludwig would say "philosophy is just a byproduct of misunderstanding language!"
This stuff is so fascinating, and we unpack it all in the podcast.
Excited to hear your feedback, and please share!
Until next week,
Matt
TPP Podcast