Our first assignment.

1. Stanford
Crash
Course
on
Creativity
Assignment
1
-­‐
Getting
to
Know
You
Submission
Date:
October
23,
2012
by
Team
13361
The
objective
our
first
assignment
is
to
find
as
many
common
traits
among
the
5
members
of
the
team
using
any
mode
of
communication.
Team
13361
–
one
member
left
our
team
to
join
another
team
and
we
invited
a
new
team
member
to
join
us.
The
5
members
of
Team
13361
are
Penny
Mudd,
USA
Robin
Teigland
-­‐
Sweden
Patricia
Huckabay
–
USA
Annup
Varkey
–
Singapore
Sandy
Adam
–
USA
(Our
new
member)
Our
Process
–
The
team
communicated
mainly
through
the
Venture
Lab’s
Conversation
application
and
Sandy
through
email.
We
developed
a
survey
for
each
of
us
to
respond
to
in
the
form
of
a
spreadsheet
in
Google
docs.
The
file
was
stored
in
a
virtual
Google
drive.
The
rows
contained
the
survey
questions
and
each
member
filled
their
designated
column.
The
listing
of
survey
questions
grew
as
each
person
contributed
to
the
listing
as
they
visited
the
spreadsheet
and
respond
to
the
questions.
We
started
with
personal
background
items
and
then
expanded
the
list
by
taking
a
look
at
the
six
factors
in
the
Innovation
Engine
framework.
This
enabled
us
to
further
develop
the
list
as
a
team
and
inspire
more
ideas
for
questions
for
the
list.
Each
member
would
check
the
spreadsheet
periodically
to
respond
to
the
additional
entries.
By
Sunday,
we
had
a
listing
of
144
survey
items
where
● 100%
of
the
team
members
have
25
survey
items
in
common,
● 80%
of
the
team
members
have
29
survey
items
in
common
and
● 60%
of
the
team
members
have
22
survey
items
in
common.
We
tried
to
summarize
these
first
on
Pinterest
but
had
several
difficulties
in
using
the
service,
eg
sharing
the
board
with
each
other,
uploading
(there
were
serious
lag
issues
caused
by
Pinterest
servers),
too
many
photos.
So
we
went
with
the
easier
route
-­‐
a
google
doc
listing
them
and
then
combined
this
with
some
slides
from
ppt
to
facilitate
the
visuals.
In
summary,
we
found
that
all
members
of
the
group
had
very
few
items
in
common
related
to
the
external
factors
of
the
Innovation
Engine
but
considerably
more
items
for
the
internal
factors
(figures
1
and
2).
1

2. Figure
1.
Commonalities
based
on
Internal
Factors
Figure
2.
Commonalities
based
on
External
Factors
2

3. Below
we
provide
more
detail
on
our
commonalities:
All
team
members
(100%)
have
the
following
in
common:
1. All
under
6
feet
2. All
wear
corrective
lenses
3. All
use
a
fork
to
eat
dinner
most
of
the
time
4. All
sleep
less
than
8
hours
daily
5. All
born
in
second
half
of
year
6. All
graduated
from
college
7. All
have
developed
a
new
product
or
service
8. All
have
published
work.
9. All
have
medical
insurance
10. All
have
live
outside
home
city
11. All
like
to
watch
ball
sports
12. All
are
curious
about
creativity
13. All
are
polite
14. All
celebrate
Xmas
15. All
do
not
participate
in
organized
religion
16. All
have
access
to
groceries
within
4
miles
of
their
home.
17. All
possess
or
have
had
a
driver's
license
18. No
one
owns
a
boat
19. All
have
at
least
2
computers
20. All
own
a
TV
21. All
have
close
dependable
friends
22. All
have
given
to
charities
23. All
have
endorsed
a
brand
to
someone
24. No
one
have
been
robbed
at
gun
or
knifepoint
25. No
one
knew
what
Shindogu
was
4
out
of
5
team
members
(80%)
have
the
following
in
common:
1. are
born
in
US
2. have
siblings
3. are
home
owners
4. are
non-­‐smokers
5. drink
coffee
in
the
morning
6. enjoy
going
for
walks
7. enjoy
online
classes
8. enjoy
watching
movies
9. have
a
front
door
mat
10. have
at
least
1
mirror
at
home
3

4. 11. do
own
laundry
12. are
employed
full
time
13. have
worked
more
than
12
hours
in
a
day.
14. do
not
doodle
15. like
to
do
experiments
16. have
played
a
musical
instrument
at
one
time
17. prefer
reading
real
books
for
pleasure
over
ebooks
18. have
driven
over
the
Golden
Gate
Bridge
19. have
been
or
will
be
visiting
the
Eiffel
Tower
20. have
never
been
to
Africa
21. have
not
visited
the
Great
Wall
of
China
22. have
joined
a
club
23. still
keep
in
touch
with
college
friends
24. use
social
media
regularly
25. smartphone
users
(60%
android,
10%
iphone)
26. have
been
robbed
in
the
past
27. have
crashed
a
car
28. have
missed
a
payment
on
time.
29. have
spent
over
$500
for
an
item
from
a
stranger
through
the
internet.
3
out
of
5
team
members
(60%)
have
the
following
in
common:
1. live
in
USA
2. have
worked
in
another
country
3. are
married
4. have
children
5. are
pet
owners
6. have
divorced
parents
at
one
time
7. do
not
live
in
a
single
family
dwelling
8. have
business
related
college
education.
9. have
started
his/her
own
business
10. worked
for
a
start-­‐up
11. have
suffered
a
long
period
of
unemployment
12. have
experienced
career
changes.
13. have
had
traffic
violations
in
the
past
14. have
never
been
hypnotized
15. are
diet
conscious
16. have
not
been
sick
in
the
past
6
months
17. do
not
suffer
chronic
health
issues.
18. have
not
suffered
a
broken
bone.
19. have
participated
in
social
media
20. still
keep
in
touch
with
2ndary
school
friends
4

5. 21. still
keep
in
touch
with
primary
school
friends
22. are
not
interested
in
politics
Team
Member
Comments
Patricia This
assignment
opened
up
the
opportunity
for
me
to
discover
Google’s
virtual
drive
and
shared
document
application.
The
survey
list
took
on
a
life
on
its
own
as
the
team
members
contribute
and
enriched
its
content.
Although
the
assignment
was
to
find
as
many
common
things
among
the
members,
the
differences
were
the
most
interesting.
I
enjoyed
this
assignment
and
the
process
of
developing
the
dataset
with
the
team.
Penny The
first
assignment
took
us
from
the
status
of
being
total
strangers
to
online
co-­‐
conspirators
in
about
96
hours.
I
was
left
with
appreciation
for
how
skillfully
and
responsibly
everyone
stepped
up
(except
for
one
team
member,
who
understandably
played
a
background
role
due
to
work-­‐related
travel)
as
soon
as
they
could
clear
the
time.
Our
schedule
and
time
zone
differences
were
not
so
much
of
a
problem
as
one
might
expect.
There
always
seemed
to
be
someone
willing
to
push
the
effort
forward
on
any
given
day.
Personally,
I
lapsed
into
habits
(we
won’t
debate
good
or
bad
here….)
of
jumping
headlong
into
a
project
with
a
short
deadline
(not
attempting
to
get
consensus,
just
doing
and
seeing
what
the
obstacles
were)
and
using
email
like
a
lasso
to
pull
in
a
distributed
team.
I
made
some
mistakes,
like
going
down
a
rabbit
hole
of
using
SW
I
did
not
know
well
(Pinterest)
and
not
looking
first
at
an
important
assignment
requirement
(the
submission
format
for
the
deliverable).
The
team
was
gracious
about
trying
to
wrestle
with
the
SW
and
even
my
missteps
had
some
value
in
that
they
allowed
us
to
see
how
we
would
need
to
react
if
someone
gets
off
into
the
weeds
again
in
the
future.
Robin This
was
a
wonderful
opportunity
to
start
learning
about
education
through
online
courses
as
well
creativity!
I
enjoyed
thinking
about
Tina’s
Innovation
Engine
model
and
it
was
interesting
to
see
how
we
found
so
many
internal
factor
commonalities
but
so
few
external
factor
commonalities.
One
reason
for
this
may
be
because
it
is
easier
to
brainstorm
about
things
with
which
you
are
more
familiar,
ie
it
is
easier
to
think
about
my
personal
traits
as
opposed
to
the
aspects
of
my
external
environment.
In
addition,
I
was
surprised
at
how
much
time
several
of
us
spent
on
this
assignment
considering
there
are
no
formal
incentives
to
do
so.
I
am
looking
forward
to
continuing
working
with
this
team!
Sandy
Thanks
to
knowing
Robin
via
Twitter,
I
was
invited
and
welcomed
to
this
team.
The
team
I
originally
was
put
on
did
not
participate
at
all
this
first
week,
despite
several
attempts
to
contact
them.
I
was
thrilled
to
see
that
they
had
this
spreadsheet
of
commonalities
happening
and
learned
a
lot
about
each
of
my
new
team
members
in
a
short
time.
I
am
really
looking
forward
to
exploring
our
creativity
and
a
team
and
as
individuals
and
learning
from
each
other.
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