Ready-Fire-Aim | Neil Gershenfeld | TEDxMIT Salon

How to fail at (almost) anything -- stories about success coming from failure

[SentientArtist]

Found him through Lex’s podcast. I’m very much looking forward to join FabLabs next year here in India. It might be the only community meant for me. Thank you for your work. You impact millions without getting enough credit. True hero

[PeoplesScience]

Hey! Found him via Lex and now am obsessed with this guy. About to be a hermit and study all his work

[colinmcintyre]

How does this have so few views!? Thank you for sharing your knowledge as you do 🙏.

[GreenOne]

I don't want to imagine a world of all business & no play...

Thank you for sharing this 😁.

[rlews]

In some cases (but not all) isn't an alternative thesis that the initial scope of these tasks might have been defined to narrowly? The questions were wrongly formulated. It shouldn't have been an adhesive, rather an attachment. That's important because, if true, there are more than one mistake we're making in developing knowledge and technology. Ready, Aim Broadly and Fire Repeatedly.

[matt-g-recovers]

I used this same statement to describe behavior of alcoholism

[dcorgard]

I agree that "Science - The Endless Frontier" by Vannevar Bush, had fundamentally changed how science is actually done in practice. And so I ask, since then, how many breakthroughs have we had in the physical sciences? It depends on your definition of "Breakthrough" - mine would be something that changes our entire outlook on the universe (e.g. like the Classical vs Quantum Mechanics divide). I comfortably say NONE. Some others may choose 1 thing in the early 1970's [the Standard Model of Elementary Particles], but I don't count those as fundamentally changing our (scientific) outlook of the world.

And I am only speaking strictly in the realm of scientific knowledge, and not technological progress - of which there has been a fair amount of, but it is still heavily lacking in such an environment as was setup post-WWII.

[Brian-S]

I wonder how someone with not much formal education could get into a fablab? As someone in the uav, 3d printing, general maker space but 0 college education and all self taught wanting to get into more technical stuff like pcb design I imagine I couldn't just sign up on a list and be looked at seriously?

[skyhavender]

I sure hope nanobots are real and that Ray Kurtzweil's predictions becomes true...

((I know this is different but the guy is working in nanorobotics so who knows right?))