El hombre del renacimiento según Ben Hammersley: ¿de nuevo los hackers?

Hace unos días comentaba (Entre los hackers renacentistas y los viejos administradores de sistemas) un post de Ben Hammersley donde introducía su intervención en Reboot 8 sobre “How to be a Renaissance Man”. Una vez pasada la conferencia, diversos bloggers han resumido las ideas básicas de Hammersley. Me quedo con la de Marko Ahtissari y con la más detallada de Bruno Guissani (que hace un extenso resumen de la conferencia en varios posts). En Reboot8: How to be a Renaissance man, and help Google eat itself resume las cuatro reglas de Hammersley que debería cumplir el “hombre del renacimiento” adaptado al siglo XXI:

1. Steal from the best (like Brunelleschi reverse-engineering ancient Roman architecture in order to build Florence's extraordinary cathedral dome - or like today's web designers hitting the "view source" button on Web pages).
2. Never say no (like Michelangelo accepting the challenge to paint the ceiling of the Sixtine Chapel despite his preference for sculpture and little experience in fresco painting).
3. Indulge ("slack, leive early, do other stuff: one of the things in being a Renaissance man is actually not doing your job; in order to create great art, to create great legacy you have to indulge your senses and passions" - example: Filippo Lippi, a XV century painter).
4. Complexity is good ("let your different interests feed upon each other").

"What's holding you back?", Hammersley asks the audience. "We live in the most exciting possible time, can access every corner of the planet and every bit of information, have very powerful tools.  The secret is: consume more data, suck stuff in like sponges, have passion. The secret rule number 5 is: no matter what opportunities come to you, what interest, what encounter, what curiosity, say yes: grasp it, do it, yield to it, and create new things!".

Asumir (3) y disfrutar (2) de la complejidad (4) “a hombres de gigantes” (1). ¿No es esta una definición alternativa de hacker?. Una receta simple pero revolucionaría para las mentes disciplinadas y disciplinarias. Habrá que esperar al 2007 para que en su nuevo libro explique estas ideas en profundidad.

1. Steal from the best (like Brunelleschi reverse-engineering ancient Roman architecture in order to build Florence's extraordinary cathedral dome - or like today's web designers hitting the "view source" button on Web pages).
2. Never say no (like Michelangelo accepting the challenge to paint the ceiling of the Sixtine Chapel despite his preference for sculpture and little experience in fresco painting).
3. Indulge ("slack, leive early, do other stuff: one of the things in being a Renaissance man is actually not doing your job; in order to create great art, to create great legacy you have to indulge your senses and passions" - example: Filippo Lippi, a XV century painter).
4. Complexity is good ("let your different interests feed upon each other").

"What's holding you back?", Hammersley asks the audience. "We live in the most exciting possible time, can access every corner of the planet and every bit of information, have very powerful tools.  The secret is: consume more data, suck stuff in like sponges, have passion. The secret rule number 5 is: no matter what opportunities come to you, what interest, what encounter, what curiosity, say yes: grasp it, do it, yield to it, and create new things!".

Asumir (3) y disfrutar (2) de la complejidad (4) “a hombres de gigantes” (1). ¿No es esta una definición alternativa de hacker?. Una receta simple pero revolucionaría para las mentes disciplinadas y disciplinarias. Habrá que esperar al 2007 para que en su nuevo libro explique estas ideas en profundidad.

1. Steal from the best (like Brunelleschi reverse-engineering ancient Roman architecture in order to build Florence's extraordinary cathedral dome - or like today's web designers hitting the "view source" button on Web pages).
2. Never say no (like Michelangelo accepting the challenge to paint the ceiling of the Sixtine Chapel despite his preference for sculpture and little experience in fresco painting).
3. Indulge ("slack, leive early, do other stuff: one of the things in being a Renaissance man is actually not doing your job; in order to create great art, to create great legacy you have to indulge your senses and passions" - example: Filippo Lippi, a XV century painter).
4. Complexity is good ("let your different interests feed upon each other").

"What's holding you back?", Hammersley asks the audience. "We live in the most exciting possible time, can access every corner of the planet and every bit of information, have very powerful tools.  The secret is: consume more data, suck stuff in like sponges, have passion. The secret rule number 5 is: no matter what opportunities come to you, what interest, what encounter, what curiosity, say yes: grasp it, do it, yield to it, and create new things!".

Asumir (3) y disfrutar (2) de la complejidad (4) “a hombres de gigantes” (1). ¿No es esta una definición alternativa de hacker?. Una receta simple pero revolucionaría para las mentes disciplinadas y disciplinarias. Habrá que esperar al 2007 para que en su nuevo libro explique estas ideas en profundidad.