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TED Thursdays: Cameron Herold: Let’s raise kids to be entrepreneurs

James Wang — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:12:38 +0000

I watched this the other night and thought to myself while watching it, ok, ok, keep rubbing it in about the awesome experiences you had in your training growing up. I loved the graphic of traits to teach kids that was on the chalkboard.

If you can’t see the video, then check it out here:

http://jameswang.net/2011/10/06/tt-cameron-kidpreneurs/

As an adult, you might also want to check out his book on being an entrepreneur.

TED Thursdays: Mike Matas: A next-generation digital book

James Wang — Thu, 19 May 2011 14:31:47 +0000

It is absolutely mind blowing what education could be like 5 years from now. The concept is a user interface for books that make it easy to flip chapter to chapter, page to page, and also have interactive objects within its pages, from expandable pictures and video to little apps within the pages, like a fun windpower game like app that shows how wind power might flow through a house structure. I can’t wait to see these in action.

http://pushpoppress.com/ourchoice/

Genius Machine

James Wang — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:52:13 +0000

I love playing with ideas. I’m definitely an idea guy. Unfortunately, though many of them do, many of them also don’t tend to ever see the light of day. I was reading Jason Curlee’s blog and saw this post recently talking about the book Genius Machine. Here’s quoting his analysis of it.

Ideas enter the process fuzzy, weak, and partially baked. Using the eleven steps–

Distinction (seeing something new),
Identity (knowing who you are and why you are driven to share your idea),
Implications (exploring every possible consequence of your idea),
Testing (find the breaking point),
Precedent (who else has done something like this),
Need (who will it be most valuable for / focus on your audience),
Foundation (discover the underlying principles or rules),
Completion (can your idea stand on its own),
Connecting (flattening the learning curve),
Impact (is the impact of your idea in alignment with your goals)
and Advocacy (you must champion your ideas)

You can check out his post here and while your at it, check out the rest of his site. I regularly find myself saving his stuff to think about and chew on for later.