When i was a kid i absolutely loved getting my first pocket knife. It was given to me by my granddad and i’ve still got it, somewhere, amidst all the other pocket knives i’ve collected since. To this day I carry a pocket knife or multi-tool just about everywhere i go (insert TSA gripes here) because they’re simply so damn useful. So when i saw Gever Tulley’s TED Talk on dangerous things for kids in which he suggests all children should be given a pocket knife i was interested.
Tulley also suggested in his talk that children be allowed to take things apart and learn how they work which was another of my favourite hobbies as a kid. My father would always bring home broken computer equipment and i would disassemble it and, rarely, put it back together again. Part of me thinks this is what lead to my love of computers and tinkering.
Looks like Tulley’s book Fifty Dangerous Things has finally been released and if it’s anything like his TED talk it should be excellent. Will definitely be picking up a copy myself.