Celebrating Buckminster Fuller
Today, July 12, we are celebrating R. Buckminster Fuller’s birthday.
He was such a futurist that we can expect his work still being world-famous decades from now. We were blessed to have him in our lives as a Mentor — we were not his Protegees (you had to be a genius to be that) — but students of the principles that he taught us.
Bucky would learn from nature and then apply it the human experience.
Here’s a great video from CBS...
Build a Tower, Build a Team…
A good video from TED on building teams.
Tom Wujec presents surprisingly deep research into the “marshmallow problem” — a simple team-building exercise that involves dry spaghetti, one yard of tape and a marshmallow. Who can build the tallest tower with these ingredients? And why does a surprising group always beat the average?
Tom Wujec is a Fellow at Autodesk, the makers of design software for engineers, filmmakers, designers. At...