Some people learn problem-solving in a lecture hall; I learned it in the passenger seat of a vintage car, racing across America. For the past 5 years, I have been my mom's Navigator for "The Great Race," a time-speed-endurance rally across the U.S. in our 1964.5 Mustang. We use no GPS and no digital safety net, Just analog tools, math, and the ability to calculate our way out of a problem on the fly.
Some people learn problem-solving in a lecture hall; I learned it in the passenger seat of a vintage car, racing across America. For the past 5 years, I have been my mom's Navigator for "The Great Race," a time-speed-endurance rally across the U.S. in our 1964.5 Mustang. We use no GPS and no digital safety net, Just analog tools, math, and the ability to calculate our way out of a problem on the fly.
But this drive to "figure it out" started long before I picked up a stopwatch. I grew up in a family of architects and artists, raised in an environment where nothing was just bought, it was built, drafted, or fixed. Since I was a kid, I’ve had a compulsion to make things. If I was inspired, I built it. It didn't matter if the medium was construction paper or mechanical components; I learned early on that if you understand how things are put together, you can solve almost anything.
But this drive to "figure it out" started long before I picked up a stopwatch. I grew up in a family of architects and artists, raised in an environment where nothing was just bought, it was built, drafted, or fixed. Since I was a kid, I’ve had a compulsion to make things. If I was inspired, I built it. It didn't matter if the medium was construction paper or mechanical components; I learned early on that if you understand how things are put together, you can solve almost anything.
