Children need a daily challenge intellectually, socially, emotionally, physically and spiritually. Experiences that lead to failure offer lessons about the way the world works and how one fits into it. Those that lead to success provide confidence and trust in one’s intuition. Risk is necessary in design to promote user learning, benefit from iteration, and speed effective development.
Startup Weekend in Purdue
This weekend, forty business and tech people will gather to create a startup company from scratch. Andrew Hyde’s experiment earlier this summer in Boulder has spawned a series of similar events in cities around the world, with Hyde trying to go to every one of them. Whether it is done in this format or through our own devices, I’m determined to organize a similar event here in Bloomington in the spring.