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Failure: The Blog 
February 2012
- Unfinished, But Inhabited
- The Success of Failure, via CNN
- Einstein Actually Had Excellent Grades
- The Physics of Discarded Paper
- The Power of Failing
January 2012
- Offensive Advertising, Increased Sales?
- I Sold Out For Millions, Then Worked At McDonald's
- Steve Jobs on Failure
- The Famous Western Failure
- Thank Goodness for Drug Addicts
December 2011
- It's a Wonderful Failure
- Stadium Destroyed, Reborn
- Failure to Trust the Astronauts
- Failure and the Baggy Pants Tradition
- Failure at The Happiest Place on Earth
- Saving What Was Lost
- FailureBank: A Social Learning Utility
November 2011
- A Thanksgiving Failure
- Harriet Tubman's Clever Lie
- The Failures of Lemieux
- Failed to Return a Text
- Admitting Failure
- A Leaders Job: Support Failure
October 2011
Admitting Failure
We’re usually don’t fess up to our mistakes, except if we’re on the witness stand or in couples therapy. So why is a new website devoted to this task?
The site is called Admitting Failure. It encourages visitors to not only accept that errors are part of life, but to announce them to the world. From their introduction:
The development community is failing… to learn from failure. Instead of recognizing these experiences as learning opportunities, we hide them away out of fear and embarrassment.
No more. This site is an open space for development professionals who recognize that the only “bad” failure is one that’s repeated. Those who are willing to share their missteps to ensure they don’t happen again. It is a community and a resource, all designed to establish new levels of transparency, collaboration, and innovation within the development sector.
Non-profit organizations working in the third world are already facing difficult circumstances. If their projects crash and burn, it might only make the next step that much more difficult. But this website is supporting the idea that the community can learn from each other’s mistakes only if they share them.
Failure is the secret to success. No matter what you do or where you are, take a good look at problems. They are the beginnings to the solutions you’ll find next.
Thanks to reader Sacha Brady (@zigged) for this post idea!
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joe