Seek to Misconstrue + a
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
Cosmic Error, Standing Ovation
Astronomer Andrew Lyne thought he made the discovery of a lifetime: the incredible find of a planet orbiting a pulsar star. The news looked like it might change the field forever.
Photo © Flickr User NASA Goddard Photo and Video
But according to the Wikipedia article Lyne and his colleague Matthew Bailes, problems were soon discovered:
However, after this was announced, the group went back and checked their work, and found that they had not properly removed the effects of the Earth’s motion around the Sun from their analysis, and, when the calculations were redone correctly, the pulse variations that led to their conclusions disappeared, and that there was in fact no planet around [the pulsar].
This experience might best be described by reversing an old expression: Lyne had defeat snatched from the claws of victory.
It was then that Andrew Lyne decided to do something which has been elevated to folklore in the scientific community. Again from Wikipedia:
[When Lyne] announced the retraction of his results at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, he received a standing ovation from his scientific colleagues for having the intellectual integrity and the courage to admit this error publicly.
Failure, again is the secret to success. Instead of scolding him for making an error, his peers praised him for setting things right. Andrew Lyne made a discovery: finding the truth often first requires being wrong.
