Kyle McDonald's feedback

[hxrts]

• switching between reading text, painted text, pen text is really jarring. something as simple as making the background completely white could fix this.
• the smart watch looks like it's only a little smaller than the data center
• "yeah but here's the interesting part" is great, feels like maybe the transistor-man is our narrator
• maybe it's worth saying more about why there is a connection between the microscopic images and minimalist art? that they are both affected by industrialization, regularization, repetition (which you do mention), modernism. also thinking about it in contrast to the rise of the 90s blobjects.
• if you can make the video of the 1 bit computer into a gif i think more people would see it in action (also, the embed is not working right now)
• the A/B text on the logic gates when they first appear feels like a lot of text, it's so much to look at, i feel like i should read each one and understand it. maybe remove the A/B and the outputs, just show the shapes.
• around "great thing about the logic gates are that..." i started feeling a little overwhelmed. something like a short quote, something non-technical to break the pace here could be good.
• you say TTL without defining it, it's a strange word without introduction.
• for some reason "1+1=10" is rendering as "-1+1=10"
• why is it called a "half adder"? why "half"?
• i saw a place where zero and one are written "Zero" and "One" with capital letters. it made me think that you could have one image of zero, and one image of one, and whenever you want to talk about them you use the images. this would really reinforce the idea that computation is only zero and one. seeing zero, Zero, ZERO, 0, one One, ONE, 1 it looks like so many different things, visually.
• "Some data is stored in the storage" feels very strange to read, might be ok to use the real names of different kinds of storage here -- or not mention that there are different types at all, since the devices you show only have "memory" and "state", no kind of "longer term" or "fast" or "slow" memory.
• one issue with the paring lot metaphor is that you don't just add and remove, or store and delete things in memory. you also leave them there and read them.

i think once this is finished, you have to move on to the next thing: answering "What kind of computer do I want to build" and building computers that don't follow any of the standards you laid out, that have their own kind of logic :)

[hxrts]

added remaining comments to gdoc. addressed most of these already.