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Remember science experiments back in school? When was the last time you asked five why’s in a row?Keeping an experimenter mindset is hard. Science is effective because it is constantly testing theories against reality. The great scientist Richard Feynman once said “We are trying to…

Cooks use knives. Carpenters use hammers. And experimenters use an experiment library. Since childhood I have enjoyed libraries. I never thought I would create my own library. Not with books, but with experiments. Experiment libraries are unusual outside science. During my academic tenure, I remember…

This is the first of three parts to share the journey from thoughtland to reality. Part 1 focuses on the process of shaping. What is shaping? The closest analogy I can think of is bread making. Shaping dough before baking is essential for bread to…

What is pretotyping? Sometimes we do things without thinking how to call them. This is my past and present story. Rewind to the past. Early in my career, I was Product Manager on Nintendo Wii games. Creating games is an art and a science. There…