"If you're not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original.

By the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity.
[...] And we run our companies like this by the way."

"And we're now running education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make."


"If you were to visit education as an alien and ask ( Read more... )

America is very good at innovating for older-, richer- people diseases. Our health care system produces many innovations that poorer countries (as well as more socialistic countries) would consider luxuries. We're not as concerned with producing a higher quantity of low-cost drugs to cure malaria or to vaccinate against tetanus. We're not as ( Read more... )

You can start playing at 8minutes (skip the first 8). Video also found here.

Collaboration entails (and engenders) tucking away the ego and taking an "us" perspective instead of "me", at a deep level. 
kindatesst
  was talking to me about the struggle to deal with ego among faculty members at a high school when moving towards collaboration. We as a culture are ( Read more... )

I think there is a good deal of genetic and socially-constructed predisposition as to what a given person will turn out to be, as far as their occupation ( Read more... )