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I don’t have any reason to, but I’m just sick of this reputation, and how hard could it possibly be? I bet, if I just try harder than everyone else, I’ll win.” I thought, “Today I’m just gonna go for the glory. And I at least felt that I had a reputation of being a scaredy-cat and a bit of a wuss. You could easily walk next to a soccer ball and keep up with it.
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I actually went back recently, and it’s just, like, just the slightest, barely noticeable incline.
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One day we decided to have a race down the cul-de-sac, which I remembered being really, really steep. There’s one really deep memory I have in Connecticut, where I lived in a cul-de-sac, and there were four houses in the cul-de-sac, and they all had young kids, so we were just always getting in trouble doing stuff. If their first response is to think of play as a physical activity, then you can open it up to emotional and intellectual risks, and then usually people find those memories. it doesn’t necessarily need to be physical play you could be taking an intellectual risk, for instance.” Because a really shy kid might just stand near a group of friends, and that could be a really significant, deep memory for them because they’re taking that really big social risk. if there isn’t an immediate answer, then I’ll talk about, “Oh, intellectual. Usually a couple people bounce out with a memory very quickly, and then after. I asked this question to the audience at a talk I gave at Universe, which is a technology company. I usually start by asking, “What’s your deepest memory of childhood play.” Sometimes people immediately have an answer. I’ll share one, and they’ll say, “Oh, wait, now I know what you mean, I actually have one.” I think Emily, my partner, her memory centered on climbing in trees and just sitting there and spending a long time in the tree, and not doing anything there but just enjoying the tree for all of its glory. I find that it’s pretty common for people to say, “I don’t have any memories of play” immediately. They are thinking, “What do you mean? What do you mean, love?” Then, when they start talking about their childhood memories, their brow becomes relaxed, and they start smiling, and then they have that physical memory that can be used as a foundation. when you introduce Anji in abstract terms, everyone kind of has this furrowed brow. that was one of the things I used to introduce it to my coworkers, and I also wrote about it on my blog. Ryan Mather: When I met my partner the first time, she came over to my apartment, we talked about our early childhood memories of play, and it was one of my tests to determine whether or not I was gonna move forward with the relationship, if she felt comfortable talking about that. In that process, do you ever ask people to share their memories of play as children? Jesse Coffino: You have been sharing your experiences in Anji in different ways with your coworkers and your peers and your friends and your larger community network. I also started a company that makes a game called FlipTale, which has a play-based approach to exploring literacy through role-playing games.
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I was a student of Cas Holman’s when I was a student at RISD, and after being a student at RISD, I started as a product designer at littleBits, which makes educational toys that have a focus on science and technology. Ryan Mather: I’m an interaction and product designer, focused on the relationship between play and learning.