THOR MULLER:  School of Hard Knocks
Channel: IgniteNYC
Date: 2012-12-02

Thor Muller shares the story of San Francisco's new experimental K-12 "maker" school called Brightworks, which lists failure as a primary ingredient of the curriculum. It asks students to take on ambitious projects of their own imagining--such as human-driven cars, stop-motion movies and theatrical productions. It turns out that the success of Brightworks--as chaotic and un-school-like as it often is--is grounded in its embrace of failure itself.

Thor is the New York Times best-selling co-author of Get Lucky: How to Put Planned Serendipity to Work for You and Your Business, as well as cofounder of Get Satisfaction, an online customer engagement platform. Thor started one of the world's first Web design agencies in 1995, acquired by Frog Design to form its global Internet practice.
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This talk took place at the Ignite NYC 14 event, "Fails, Facepalms and Spinouts: Stories from the Other Side of Failure" event. 5 minutes and 20 slides rotating automatically in front of NYC's brightest geeks, what would you say? For nearly two years Ignite NYC has cultivated a vibrant community of artists, technologists, thinkers, tinkerers, and personalities to connect, develop new relationships and projects, and answer this challenge. Enlighten us, but make it quick!k!

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