In this episode, Mike and Matt discuss the remarkable life and work of Claude Shannon, inventor of Information Theory, and pioneer of the digital age. They look at how Shannon's work laid the foundation for digital computing, how his personality and environment informed his work, and what lessons can be applied in a modern API context.

For more on Shannon...

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood - https://www.around.com/the-information/

A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age - https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Mind-at-Play/Jimmy-Soni/9781476766690

A Mathematical Theory of Communication, Claude Shannon - https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.pdf