I'm less of a PARC fan and more of a Lampson fan. In fact, I'm a huge Butler Lampson fan. I've read his PARC valedictory Hints on Computer System Design many times and he's updated it recently. He went from PARC to DEC SRC (maybe 5 miles). I saw him give a talk at SRC and for about 15 minutes afterwards, I understood.
Hints is the favorite paper of a lot of my heroes like John Regehr.
Let me encourage you to be both. Butler is one of the most amazing people I've met and had the great pleasure of working in the same environment with him for many years. I also think that all of us who were there would not want to try to separate "the great people" from "the great environment" nor would it be possible without great distortion (this is the point that most people miss about ARPA/PARC).
Thanks Alan. If my current project succeeds, and it should, I'm going to try to reach out to Butler and present it to him because frankly, it has Lampson written all over it with maybe some Thacker graffiti here and there.
Hints is the favorite paper of a lot of my heroes like John Regehr.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
http://bwlampson.site/Slides/Hints%20and%20principles%20(HLF...
http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1143
From SRC, he went to Microsoft and he also taught at MIT.
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...