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Rough notes taken on Galaxy as ipad batt dead on Mythbusters’ Adam Savage talk

About if we feel qualified to discuss art or science. 

Hero of his is Richard Feynman. Ellie Lammer of Lammers Law.

We practice Science all the time as empiricism.

I don’t know about art but I know what I like.  Equivalent is “im not really a math person…”

Science as opposite of art, Clara Moskowitz article.

For “Question!” … 1 come up with a question, 2 form a hypothesis (a self generating act…more you do, the more you do)
3 Design an experiment to test your hypothesis.

Art and science is how we converse about who we are…Cubism as response to scientific achievement of that time.

2 question everything
3 nothing is beyond your understanding

Q: Does the story get in the way of the experiment? HOW CAN SCIENTISTS before better story tellers?

Through failure.

People should not think math is a mountain of facts.

Q: girls and creativity and math

We all have imposter syndrome…having notoriety actually accentuates this.  Meta filter on Auden…fomenting the enthusiasm of crowds…the better conversion is between you and another person, not crowds.

Buzzfeed figures out the value of fact checking.  Through trial and error.

New Media has to trial and error their way through.  The power of trust the New York Times has is vastly valuable.

Kids have to touch the stove. We have to touch the stove.

If you look at enough stuff, you see patterns emerge. When you see patterns you can come up with your own idea.

Religion and Science question: if someone wants to believe in a first domino and get together once a week to talk about how awesome everything is, great! Atheists should do the same!

“The great thing about facts is they are true whether or not you believe in them.” Quote by Neil Degrassi Tyson

What we need to do? Understand the full picture. Don’t just believe the headlines. He is a Snowden fan.

Stop Making Sense:
You have to touch the stove.

Andres Glusman organizes Lean Startup Meetup; from Meetup, Vp strategy and community

Test a lot at meet up, down and dirty

Watch out for Malkovich Bias: that all people use technology way you do.

Way to cure? Show makers people using their products. Shifts from how I would use it to how s/he will use it.

Meet up uses gotomeeting – trying to eliminate friction between people who work on stuff and people using (testing) product

Quick rig for an iPhone test

Waste in experimentation

Tested 5 concepts for messages and approach to get people to create meet ups.

He hated the “Congratulations” and ” Don’t worry” tied for first. Adding graphics had very very little effect on outcome.

(cool “meet up” Warhol Campbell soup can teeshirt)

Structured an experiment on organizers with advisors from meetup. Took long time.

1. Give team direct access to customers. Remove friction.
2. Make it easy to test. Don’t worry about your test being perfect.
3. If test screws up, one right behind it.
4. Etc. Will be in posted deck,,,

It is such a dopamine lift to see test results, you will want to do more and more.

Steven Gary Blank : four Steps to the Epiphany: successful strategies for products that win

Handed out but no one read. Do not hand out a process. Do not follow the map in his deck. Just start doing it!!

What would you do if you knew you were going to fail? If you are going to run into a buzz saw? Hit it fast. Reason people don’t test is they are scared of failure. If you begin with assumption you are going to fail, you hit victory faster.

Q: Can you spend too much time testing not enough building? A: yes. Iterating on this process itself.

Comment : They have tested 600 or so participants. Have used meetup itself for Organizing project! Using tools for uses other than intended for.