nolan bushnell
[la, ca]
intro’d to Nolan via email notification that he was now following me on twitter.. (along with 50.2k others).. so i dm’d him. of course.
haven’t read your book.. but then.. you haven’t read mine. perhaps there are some similarities we should talk about. think: brainrush exponentiated by stigmergy for the next 7 bill Jobs..
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from his site:
the more revolutionary the idea is the fewer people will think it’s cool.. remember that..
a nother way.. crazy idea.. might just work..
some of my most successess.. no one wanted to buy in on it..
imagine.. we go beyond thinking .. buy in via money
my prescription in book.. is how can any company increase their creative quotient.. most important thing.. is to say yes…
2 min – life is interesting asa you want to make it.. too many want to settle.. as long as not willing to settle.. then need to be a really really good beginner..
perpetual beta.. iterating detox..
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find/follow Nolan:
Serial Entrepreneur, Founded Brainrush, Atari, Chuck E. Cheese, Etak, ByVideo, Axlon, uWink. MY book Finding the Next Steve Jobs
Currently, Mr. Bushnell is devoting his talents to fixing education with his new company, Brainrush. His beta software is teaching academic subjects at over 10 times the speed in classrooms with over 90% retention. He uses video game metrics to addict learners to academic subjects.
Nolan Kay Bushnell (born February 5, 1943) is an American engineer and entrepreneur who founded bothAtari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza-Time Theaters chain. Bushnell has been inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame and the Consumer Electronics Association Hall of Fame, received the BAFTA Fellowship and the Nations Restaurant News “Innovator of the Year” award, and was named one of Newsweek‘s “50 Men Who Changed America.” Bushnell has started more than twenty companies and is one of the founding fathers of the video game industry. He is currently on the board of Anti-Aging Games, but his latest venture is an educational software company called Brainrush that is using video game technology in educational software, incorporating real brain science, in a way that Bushnell believes will fundamentally change education. Nolan, who is co-founder and chairman of Brainrush, believes that Brainrush will be his biggest success.
Nolan is credited with Bushnell’s Law, an aphorism about games “easy to learn and difficult to master” being rewarding.
4 min – i believe anything that’s been done before.. and is no longer done.. should be done again.. i believe things that have never been done before and sound crazy.. you should definitely do..
5 min – on ed.. we’re training out creativity..
be you. 