Failures can be found all over Stanford. Stanford parking is one huge mistake that can’t seem to be turned around. It keeps getting worse and\u00a0diminishes\u00a0Stanford’s workplace appeal. My building, the Y2E2, is also a failed experiment that doesn’t seem to be able to find recourse. Then there’s the time that Stanford went with Oracle – perpetually compounding stress and waste. Oh and that Solar Charging station on Panama Mall that I have never seen anyone use. And if I want to go back to a Stanford-UC Davis comparison, there’s Stanford Marguerite and UC Davis’ Unitrans (one has lots of riders\u00a0and the other hardly; guess which is which).<\/p>\n

OK, to be fair, I can identify a few outstanding\u00a0Stanford successes. One is the d.School which serves as a beacon for design thinking in both concept and application. Then there’s the CS 106A Programming Methodology\u00a0Online Course\u00a0with Mehran Sahami. Coursework also seems to have had a positive track record (thanks Christine); I recently built a pair of online quizzes in Coursework and it was both easy and a tremendous time-saver.<\/p>\n

The idea is that success (as a standalone outcome) cannot be mastered. It is the “learn from failure+success” pairing that can and should be mastered. And from mastering this pairing, one can find the intrinsic motivation that we need to become the future generation of innovators.<\/p>\n

Add-on: I just started working on scheduling classes for\u00a0my summer academic program, and I have found the “New Meeting Pattern Grid” to be at new lows even for Stanford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In our YCISL workshops, we run the Spaghetti Tower-Marshmallow exercise as a lesson in prototyping with the message of “fail early, fail fast” [it is also used as a lesson in team dynamics]. In order to encourage fast-thinking, teams initially have 5 minutes to brainstorm\u00a0the design then 15 minutes to build the tower. Usually, all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3625"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3725,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions\/3725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}