Failure for Fun and Profit!
summary
Argues that deliberate, playful failure builds durable skills by removing threat and narrowing variables, citing a week of practicing Calvin pool (loses five or six games then runs an entire table) as an experiment in low-risk, high-variation practice. Builds and iterates on fizzbuzz.io (v0.1 → v0.6) to test tools: Facebook login, Twitter and SMS hooks, EC2 workers via a message queue, Travis CI, Code Climate, MiniTest, Jeweler and Bundler. Recommends spikes, deconstruction, pair programming, teaching, study groups and book groups as concrete learning patterns.
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chapters (37)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:36Scientific Method
- 2:00Zen in the Air
- 2:48My Other Hobbies
- 4:13Why Stress About Learning
- 5:31How I Became a Pool Shark
- 8:02Redefining Failure
- 9:06Brains
- 10:06Cognitive Scientists
- 11:12Stress
- 12:06Escape Valve
- 14:40Space to Fail
- 15:13Time to Learn
- 15:36We Need Courage
- 16:25The Heroes Myth
- 17:28Learning
- 18:33Distraction
- 18:52Fight or Flight
- 19:59Aesthetic Experience
- 20:56Flow
- 21:32Pool
- 22:09Too Many Options
- 22:59Define
- 23:32Deconstruction
- 24:29User Case
- 25:12Six Ways
- 26:00What You Should Do
- 27:01Building Models
- 28:27Fizzbuzz
- 30:06Fizzbuzz V6
- 30:46Fizzbuzzio
- 32:50Pair Programming
- 33:07Postit Notes
- 34:01Adopt a Gem
- 34:44Teach Go Teach
- 37:06Inspiration
- 38:36Whats Next
