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Failure for Fun and Profit!

Talkat Ruby Midwest 2013 · 2013-04-05..04-06· [career-development]
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Claim: deliberately play and fail to learn faster by removing stakes, scheduling a sacred space and adding one deliberate complication at a time. Practical tools: mini projects, forking gems, pairing, Travis CI, CodeClimate and queuing on EC2. Concrete result: a released fizzbuzz gem evolved through multiple versions, gained API endpoints and SMS via EC2 and works enough to attract contributions. Pattern: small, low-risk failures + repeatable experiments = retained abstract understanding (Experiential Learning).

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  2. 3:43Learning Curves
  3. 16:23Philosophy of Play
  4. 22:45Ken Robinson
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