The Moonshot Podcast Episode 10: Prototyping The Future, live from SXSW 2025
May 12, 2025
In a lively discussion from SXSW 2025, guests Adam Savage, a champion of experimental curiosity, Catie Cuan, a visionary choreographer and robot engineer, and Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic, explore radical innovation. They delve into the fusion of human creativity and technology, addressing topics like the future of human-robot interaction, the importance of embracing failure as a stepping stone for breakthroughs, and how past experiences can inspire new ideas. The conversation emphasizes collaboration and the imaginative spirit essential for tackling global challenges.
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Failure Accelerates Learning
- Failure is learning made visible, something to embrace, not avoid.
- Speed means less than how fast you learn and adapt from your failures.
Embrace Failure as Essential
- Fail fast and openly; failure is intrinsic to the iterative creative process.
- Learn from failures to progress and iterate effectively toward success.
Mythbusters Penny Terminal Velocity
- Adam Savage shares a Mythbusters story where disproving a myth led to a new understanding of terminal velocity.
- They built a wind tunnel and tested a penny's oscillation, linking physics with physical experimentation.