“you should [code] because you love it, because it’s fun—because it’s wonderful to create machines with your mind. Software is math-in-motion. It’s a miracle of the mind. And if you can do it, really well, there’s absolutely nothing like it.” He

Marvin Minsky, the pioneer of artificial intelligence, once said that “the problem with Logo is that it has a grammar but no literature,”

Nobody has ever won a Nobel Prize by doing what they’re told,

Piaget spent much of his eighty-four years striving to understand how children—and by extension, adults—develop an understanding of the world.

Learning, we argue, is something you do for yourself. Education is something done to you.

This is the power of pull over push—it leverages modern communications technologies and the decreased cost of innovation to move power from the core to the edges, enabling serendipitous discoveries and providing opportunities for innovators to mine their own passions. At its best, it allows people to find not only the things they need, but also the

He believed that from the earliest age humans build mental models to explain the phenomena—a speeding car, a cat’s raspy tongue—that surround us. As we grow older our experiences collide with these models, forcing us to adjust the models to accommodate our ever-changing reality. As such, child’s play is the act of a child inventing and reinventing

The quantity, or level, of complexity is influenced by four inputs: heterogeneity, a network, interdependency, and adaptation.

addition to “buy low, sell high,” another important lesson from venture investing is that when the cost of innovation becomes very low, trying to reduce losses is less important than trying to amplify your wins. In this chapter we discussed the idea of not spending more on due diligence than the price of the investment, and the importance of not