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MARSHALL PIROS is a senior in
high school who, despite extensively
using baseball metaphors in this
article, has never actually been to a
baseball game.
Written by Marshall Piros
H
ave you ever thought about how makers
measure their success? Obviously, making
a successful project is a pretty good sign.
But, what about the times where a project
doesn’t work like you envision? I’m talking about
when the making process of brainstorming,
prototyping, and creating results in, well, nothing.
A flop. A failure. A pile of parts and pieces spread
about. Imagine if makers were assigned “making
averages” in the same vein as a baseball player.
Batting averages, estimates of a player’s success
calculated by the number of times they get a hit
divided by the number of times they step up to
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