Anything that doesn’t work is a trial run
Don’t panic! We are not going to give you instructions on how to do a trial run. Not that we don’t have experience in that kind of work. We’ve done lots of trial runs. Maybe we didn’t intend them to be trial runs. But that’s how it worked out.
But people don’t need instructions on how to do a trial run. Maybe people could use a few suggestions on how to tell the difference between a trial run and a failure.
The difference between a trial run and a failure
lies in what you get out of it.
Maybe people could use some ideas on how to make good use of a trial run
I have not failed. I've just found 1,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison.
Maybe we’ll offer some things like that later. But first an illustration and another slogan.
Every problem is an opportunity being mishandled.
The problem was that we don’t like to put our trial runs on the Thinkerer website. Well, not exactly that. Sometimes we have pages under development that we need to see in html. The most efficient way to do that is to put them on the Thinkerer website. But we don’t want our visitors to look at our half-done pages and think that’s what we usually offer.
That’s the problem. Or that’s how we mishandled the opportunity. The opportunity we have is to illustrate trial runs. So we start this venue with one of our trial runs. We’ll probably have more examples later.
Resilience and the Bounce-Back Routine
Trial run:
Time Line: example
You can find more of our trial running on our working blogs.
The Thinkerer's Guide to Homework
Cognitive
Engineering & the Secret of the Moderns
Trial runs:
Time Line: example