{"id":3330,"date":"2012-03-31T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T09:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allandouglas.com\/blog\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:41","slug":"be-nice-to-nerds-who-dont-fear-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/be-nice-to-nerds-who-dont-fear-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Nice To Nerds Who Don&#8217;t Fear Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>What would you attempt to do if you were guaranteed that you would not fail?<\/h3>\n<p>The biggest reason most of do not attempt to do amazing things is that we fear failure.<\/p>\n<p>Regina Dugan, former director of DARPA, now with Google, gave this TEDTalk on failure. Her observations about fear of failure and scientific advancement are inspiring, but she <em>also<\/em> shows new video of some of DARPA&#8217;s most ambitious projects and that alone makes it worth watching.\u00a0 She also reminds us that nearly all major scientific advances are created by nerds.\u00a0 So, you should be nice to nerds.<\/p>\n<h3>What would you attempt to create if you could refuse to fear failure?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V_LurJfOSiA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n(If this does not play for you: <a title=\"DARPA nerds on YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V_LurJfOSiA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View it on YouTube<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As a fan (and hopeful author) of speculative fiction, it is encouraging to me to know that humankind has not stopped testing the limits of possibility.\u00a0 Although, perhaps &#8220;encouraging&#8221; is not the best word, as some of what we&#8217;re looking at is worrisome, as the interview at the end of the video suggests.\u00a0 Still, when we open our minds and envision new and wondrous places, machines and societies, we are not engaging in mere fancy, we are pioneering the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would you attempt to do if you were guaranteed that you would not fail? The biggest reason most of do not attempt to do amazing things is that we fear failure. Regina Dugan, former director of DARPA, now with Google, gave this TEDTalk on failure. Her observations about fear of failure and scientific advancement &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/be-nice-to-nerds-who-dont-fear-failure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Be Nice To Nerds Who Don&#8217;t Fear Failure&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4,13],"class_list":["post-3330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-muse","tag-inspiration","tag-scifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21602,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions\/21602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}