"Crossing Boundaries Without Hurting Yourself"--Brenda Laurel (HASTAC 08)

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I'm writing a paper on Digital Youth for a great conference coming up in Tokyo, focusing on digital youth in Asia. I wanted to get some quotes from the notes I made from several talks at HASTAC 08 and then came upon the list of "10 heuristics for crossing boundaries without hurting yourself" offered by Brenda Laurel, the virtual reality and human-computer interface designer/inventor of Purple Moon, who was one of the keynote speakers at HASTAC 08. I don't think anyone in our group live-blogged this talk. So here's her surprising, delightful, and inspiring list:

1--Scream and leap (when you see something that blows your mind)

2--Enjoy the ride

3--Always deal with your resistance

4--Notice the potential that others notice in you (she learned this one, she said, from Howard Rheingold, another keynoter at the conference)

5--Notice similar patterns as they emerge

6--Make structural inversions (Making the technology is not the issue--it's about having a story to tell)

7--Ask the right question

8--Challenge your challenges

9--Manifest your imagination

10--Remember who you are. (Do it, don't just point at it!)

Quite a list. Be inspired!

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