BO03: How the Turtles got their Name... and are the Rules Relevant Today?

Published: Oct. 3, 2018, 4 a.m.

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Today I would like to share some really great and unique takeaways from  a conversation I had with the one and only Richard Dennis, the father of the Turtle Project from back in the 1980\\u2019s as well as two of his turtles, namely Brian Proctor and Jerry Parker.  In our conversation we put the record straight for the first time on a number of myths about the Turtle experiment including How the Turtles got their name, and if the original rules that were applied with great success 30+ years ago would still be relevant today, and also how long it took Jerry and Brian to make sense of them.  So let\\u2019s get straight to it, starting off with the very beginning of The Turtle story. 

Listen to the full episode here.

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