도서 소개

By day, he architects a new programming language. By night, he loads film into a vintage Leica. The Rational Optimist is a forty-day record of one developer trying to understand life through the logic of systems, code, and error.

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By day, he architects a new programming language. By night, he loads film into a vintage Leica. The Rational Optimist is a forty-day record of one developer trying to understand life through the logic of systems, code, and error.
　
Across these essays, seemingly distant subjects?investing, jazz piano, vintage cameras, thermodynamics, marriage, parenting, and mortality?resolve into a single pattern. Marriage becomes a database commit. Generational conflict becomes a compatibility problem. Office anxiety is managed through container isolation. These are not decorative metaphors. They are the author’s actual way of thinking.
　
At the far edge of cold reason, the book arrives at a final conclusion:
“The universe leans toward chaos, yet we will endlessly choose to love.”
　
For non-developers, this book offers a striking way of seeing ordinary life through an unfamiliar lens. For developers, it may feel like philosophy written in a native language they rarely get to read.

  작가 소개

지은이 : TAFO
러시아어문학을 전공하며 인간의 심연을 탐구했고, 부산국제영화제 조직위원회에서 예술과 행정이 교차하는 현장을 경험했다. 이후 컴퓨터 과학으로 전향해 시스템의 골조를 익혔으며, 현재 스튜디오헤이즈(주)의 CTO로서 프로그래밍 언어 '토파즈'를 설계하고 있다.퇴근 후의 그에게는 전혀 다른 모듈이 실행된다. 라이카와 롤라이, 콘탁스 같은 빈티지 필름 카메라로 세상의 빛을 수집하고, 재즈 피아노 건반 위에서 투파이브원 진행의 보이스 리딩을 실험한다. 검도장에서 죽도를 휘두르고, 장기판 위에 양귀상 요새를 쌓으며, 아이를 위한 파르테논 신전을 설계 중인 다정한 아빠이기도 하다.스스로를 단 하나의 직함으로 정의하기를 거부하며, 상황에 따라 최적화된 컨테이너를 실행하는 '모듈형 인간'을 지향한다. 이 책은 그의 삶을 구성하는 모든 모듈이 40일간 동시에 가동되며 남긴 최종 시스템 로그다.

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About the Author

[Prologue] System Boot
- The First Commit

[Part.1] Building a Hot Life with Cold Code
01. Why I Start with Science
02. Just Stay Alive, AGI Is Coming
03. Universe Is Not Code
04. Music Is Not Geometry
05. I Game, Therefore I Am
06. Building the Parthenon
07. I Do Not Predict the Market
08. Leica M3, the Art of Inefficiency
09. Scale Is Not Essence
10. Single Source of Truth

[Part.2] Between the Cold Physics of Machines and the Warm Pulse of Rhythm
11. Truth Is Not Discovered, It Is Chosen
12. Did We Understand Each Other, or Just Misunderstand Less
13. We Might All Be Silver Tier Writers
14. Rollei 35, Extreme Packaging Engineering
15. Aesthetics of Light-Integrating Analog Circuits
16. Building a Fortress on the Board
17. Beats That Defined My Twenties
18. Piano Is Addition, Guitar Is Subtraction
19. Why I Stopped Practicing Scales
20. A Letter That Arrives Every Morning

[Part.3] Finite Life, Infinite Resolution
21. Slowest and Greatest Boot Sequence
22. Code Is Poetry
23. Computing Emotions with Bach
24. Senses Are Edited, Data Persists
25. Speed of Thought, Shaped by Friction
26. Analog's Infinite Bitrate
27. Aesthetics of Single Threading
28. Logging Out and the Right to Disconnect
29. Beauty of a Breakpoint
30. Graceful Shutdown

[Part.4] The Architecture of Relationships That Do Not Break
31. Designing a Conflict-Free Interface
32. A Perfect Translation Is a Failed Translation
33. Love Is a Commit, Not a Cache
34. Consensus Algorithm of Distributed Systems
35. Old Books Do Not Get Updated
36. A Compatibility Layer for My Parents
37. Living as a Modular Human
38. I Treat This Job as a Hobby
39. We Must Become Platforms, Not Apps
40. The Only Code That Defies Entropy

[Epilogue] Graceful Exit
- Keep Up the Good Work, No, I Love You

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