To start, they must first learn what it feels like to be simultaneously challenged and confident.
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It’s crucial that kids learn how to be passionate for the rest of their lives. My objective with this wide-ranging set of skills, and involving the community so closely in their development, is to give kids the chance to practice whatever makes them passionate now and feel encouraged-even if they’re obsessed with making stuff exclusively with duct tape. Recently the community decided to make Roleplayer an official skill It’s a fascinating passion that involves collaboratively authoring stories in real time. We create most of our skill curriculum in collaboration with our members. The skills we promote range from classics like Chemistry and Writing, to creativity like Illustration and Special Effects, to adventure like Cartography and Sailing, to emerging technology like Web Development and Rapid Prototyping. They keep a portfolio and share pictures and videos of their progress, and by doing so they attract other makers who share their interests and offer feedback. We already have 400,000 members who use DIY’s website and app to discover hundreds of new skills and dozen of challenges for each to try. So, now I’m building DIY, the online community I wish I had when I was young.
Whether it’s Minecraft or duct tape wallets, the kid-passions that seem like fads, if not totally unproductive, can alternatively be seen as mediums for experiencing the virtuous cycle of curiosity: discovering, trying, failing and growing. That skill I first developed quietly by myself, that went unnoticed by my parents and teachers, proved to be extraordinarily valuable to the economy just ten years later and the focus of many ambitious people today. Three years later, in 2007, we sold our company, Vimeo, to a publicly-traded conglomerate. I graduated and teamed up with a few others who shared my interest for these emerging skills and moved to New York City to work on the Internet for a living. It wasn’t until college, when strapped to pay my tuition, that I picked it back up and started making sites for small businesses. In high school I stopped making web pages altogether to focus on sports. Actually, I began to feel guilty for using my computer so much. Adults in my life didn’t recognize these skills as valuable, so neither did I. When I was 11 I loved designing web pages and playing Sim City.
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