Learning From Failure Geek Fest

Slides from my Geek Fest presentation on July 15th, 2014.

Transcript

1. learning from failure.
2. i failed.
3. i don’t like being called smart.
4. is smart toxic?
5. smart causes underperformance.
6. smart. effort.
7. easy. hard.
8. look smart. don’t risk making mistakes.
9. everyone failed.
10. anxious. calm.
11. drop 20% up 30%
12. a variable they can control.
13. no recipe for responding to failure.
14. expending effort is stigmatized.
15. all classes.
16. all genders.
17. all ages.
18. ok, what now?
20. hate. can’t.
21. Courtesy: http://www.teachthought.com/industry/6-reasons-standardized-testing-is-at-best-problematic/
23. warmer. colder.
24. beyond apprenticeship
25. estimating is hard
26. “Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”
27. don’t fail at failure.
28. fail fast.
29. expose ignorance.
30. retros.
31. premortem.
32. document everything.
33. “we had the opportunity to learn.”
34. failure for fun and profit.
35. chip away at the stigma.
36. foster expert learners.
37. “it meant a lot that you noticed how hard i worked.”
38. praise effort expose ignorance safe space to fail
39. praise effort expose ignorance safe space to fail
40. “your new gem is awesome!”
41. “your blog post really made me think, thanks for writing it.”
42. “you kicked ass this sprint, thanks for working so hard.”
43. praise effort expose ignorance safe space to fail
44. praise effort expose ignorance safe space to fail
45. “The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it”
47. i’m meagan software craftswoman @meaganewaller meagan@8thlight.com
48. questions?