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Failure: The Blog 
August 2018
- When This Executive Was Fired, He Took Charge
- Obeying The Speed Limit Has Never Been More Fun
- London Black Cabs Helped Uber Grow
- Bette Graham Created A Product To Fix Her Mistakes
- Flamin' Hot Cheetos Had An Interesting Start
July 2018
- Fear This Instead Of Failure
- Re-Releasing Songs Created Success
- A CEO's Purposeful Mistake
- The Tardy Student And The Unsolvable Problem
- Fixing Potholes Through Graffiti
June 2018
- A Surprising Mistake In The Oxford English Dictionary
- US Army Embraces Mistakes
- Blocking A Hymn
- Eddie Shore Was Truly A Tough Guy
- [Video] Elon Musk Didn't "Pivot" He Failed
May 2018
- 8 Examples of Mental Toughness Part 2
- Necessity Turned Accessory: Allen Iverson's Sleeve
- This Doctor Has Continued To Fail
- 8 Examples of Mental Toughness
- MIT Accidentally Creates New Smelting Process
April 2018
- Johnny Cash Quit Singing Lessons
- Cruise Control Came Out of Frustration
- Time Spent Gaming Pays Off In The Navy
- Rock Around The Clock Was a Commercial Failure
- Sigmund Freud Should Have Been Discouraged
March 2018
Google Wave: Failed Victory
Remember Google Wave, the technology that was supposed to change everything? Google announced it was shutting it down.
The official Google Blog post offers the basic story:
…Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product…
It might seem weird that the megaton company of the 21st century would be admitting defeat, but Slate columnist Farhad Manjoo offers an explanation:
“Remember, we celebrate our failures,” CEO Eric Schmidt told reporters earlier this month. “This is a company where it’s absolutely OK to try something that’s very hard, have it not be successful, and take the learning from that and apply it to something different.”
It appears that Google Wave has in fact, gone up and then back down again. It hit a crest and then found a troff. The service is at an end.
Photo © Flickr User Sean MacEntee
But if one of the most successful and innovative technology companies in the world can fail with such style, shouldn’t the rest of us? After all: Failure is the secret to success.
