Attended the FourPeaks event "Innovation & Entrepreneurship Salon with Nathan Myhrvold" at UW today. Presentation about his new book on modernist cousine, followed by discussion on entrepreneurship and education. Some things that stuck in my mind:
"The tuition in life is largely failure" (meaning that failure is the tuition you pay for learning in life)
"Sports and music prodigies get passionate advocacy to grow while academic prodigies don't"
One of the main contributors to the Wright brothers' success in achieving flight was that they had created a wind tunnel where they could test various designs without having to risk their lives.
Also, copying from nature is usually a good idea, but in case of aeroplanes, that idea did not work too well.
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