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This is Design Matters with Debbie Millman from Design Obser.

This is Design Matters with Debbie Millman from design observer.com.

This is the 10th anniversary of the podcast,

10 years of designers and other creative types talking about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about.

On this program, Debbie Millman talks with Linda Weinman of Linda.com about how the internet is challenging the traditional classroom model.

That worked because of the scarcity of information.

I think in an age of abundant information, we have a completely different challenge.

Here's Debbie Milman. To learn a skill, you A go to school or B teach

yourself. But to be self-taught, you need books, you need manuals, you need hands-on experience.

In the digital age, some of the greatest resources for people learning on their own are found online on sites like

Linda.com. In 1995 Linda Weinman co-founded the site with her husband Bruce

Heaven.

It has since grown into a company with nearly 500 employees.

Linda Weinman, welcome to Design Matters.

Well, thank you for inviting me.

So Linda growing up I read that your mom described you as a precocious kid and that you loved

school and learning. You were a straight-aid student until your parents got

divorced. What happened then? Well I think for a lot of kids it's extremely traumatic to have your parents divorce and you get

into at least for me I turned more inward. I wasn't as much in reality or whatever reality is. I was more in my head and so I was having a

conflict about my own self-worth. I was in charge of taking care of my brother and

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