Thursday, July 13, 2006

Just do it -- quantity, practice, preparation and quality

A story from "Art & Fear:Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking" by David Bayles & Ted Orland has been cited by over 120 people (e.g. empowermentillustrated.com, kintespace.com) and is worth noting. Students who expected to be evaluated on the quantity of their work produced work of better quality than those who expected to be evaluated on the basis of the quality of their work.

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

U.M. envy

The announcment that Google will be building a center near the University of Michigan, where Larry Page was a student (news) has the locals here, where Sergey Brin was a student, salivating.