By Dr. Harry Tennant
Friday, March 9, 2012 Learning through experimentationDo an experiment every day. -- Edwin Land I've long admired Edwin Land. He was the inventor of many things but most widely known for in-camera self-developing film, co-founding Polaroid Corporation and for low-cost polarizing lenses that are now common in sun glasses. But what I like most about him is his goal to do an experiment every day. If you're not an inventor, trying to do an experiment every day is a tough thing to do. But even if you don't do an experiment every day, if you're looking to do an experiment every day, you're learning. Looking for an experiment to do every day means you're looking for surprises, abnormalities or violated expectations. In other words, you're looking for things you don't understand. And that's the first step to learning. But in addition to looking for experiments to do, it has also gotten easier to do certain types of experiments, thanks to the net.
With tools like these, it's easy to have experiments running every day, and maybe even easy enough to conduct an experiment every day. Keep learning! Posted at 9:55 AM Keywords: continuous improvement , experiments 1 Comments |