


What doesn’t kill you DOES make you stronger!
Scientists at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management have established a causal relationship between failure and future success, proving German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s adage that “what does not kill me makes me stronger.” Source: Science demonstrates that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger: Researchers find that early-career failure promotes future professional success — ScienceDaily…


Create loops from songs and mix them with Unmixer
Source: Unmixer Unmixer is a web app that takes a song and chops it up into smaller loops. This loops can then be mixed by the user. It’s pretty fun, I could see music classrooms playing around with this and students performing their best mix. To get started, you give Unmixer a song to chop…

Number of times to optimally fail? Fifteen percent
To learn new things, we must sometimes fail. But what’s the right amount of failure? New research led by the University of Arizona proposes a mathematical answer to that question. Educators and educational scholars have long recognized that there is something of a “sweet spot” when it comes to learning. That is, we learn best…




Using the correct tool
Seth Godin talks about finding the right tool. The post reminds me of the old adage, when you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When coming up with a solution to a problem, I start with the why. Why are we doing this? Do we need to? Is there something else we…
