The Maker Movement Manifesto: Rules for Innovation in the New World of Crafters, Hackers, and Tinkerers

10Changing through Participation

In this chapter, I’m going to talk about how to get engaged with the Maker Movement. There are plenty of ways, and I’ll hit a number of them in the following pages. The point is simple. Make something, anything.

MEDIA FUN

I had a friend who worked for a fitness magazine. He told me that 80 percent of the readers didn’t work out. I was stunned. I know that many might not be working out, but 80 percent? He said being fit was more like football, a spectator sport. People liked the content, liked to learn and imagine how they might work out, and even liked to plan how they were going to work out. They just never get around to it. To illustrate his point, he told me how one day when he was at a garage sale, he spied ...