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Failure: The Blog  

May 2012

  • John Cusack and the Unproducable Script
  • The Luxury Car Built by Spite

April 2012

  • [VIDEO] Harrison and the Diving Board
  • The Tasty Failure of Oranges
  • What's in a Band Name
  • The Upside of Being Dishonest
  • A Case For Failing
  • From Broke to Multimillionare

March 2012

  • [VIDEO] The Most Famous, Unused Poster
  • How Angry Birds Became Successful
  • Vendor Says: Failure Is a Huge Success
  • Winning the Rejection Game
  • Fred Astaire on Making Mistakes
  • Roundoff Error: Failure and Success
  • [VIDEO] Dr. Kate on Failure

February 2012

  • Where The Sun will Finally Shine
  • Use Errors, Make Training Efficient
  • 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

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Archive for February, 2012

Where The Sun will Finally Shine

February 27th, 2012
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The tiny Italian town of Viganella is adorable and quaint, but it has one major downside. All winter long, it receives no sunlight.

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Use Errors, Make Training Efficient

February 25th, 2012
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An Indianapolis training company recently highlighted an article about mistakes. Their tagline: Focus on Observed Errors to Make Training Efficient.

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Unfinished, But Inhabited

February 22nd, 2012
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If you invest millions of dollars into a skyscraper, you intend to finish it. But what happens when the money runs out and people still need places to live and work?

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The Success of Failure, via CNN

February 17th, 2012
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We assume that successful people are those that make the smartest choices and the least mistakes. But a new CNN article about creativity points out that failure is the secret to success.

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Einstein Actually Had Excellent Grades

February 13th, 2012
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Here’s another thing that everybody knows, but turns out to be false. The gadget blog Gizmondo reports that Einstein Actually Had Excellent Grades.

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The Physics of Discarded Paper

February 9th, 2012
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Crumple it up, toss it away. We all know that feeling. But apparently, discarded jumbles of paper are a huge mystery in physics.

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The Power of Failing

February 2nd, 2012
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Patrick Gray at TechRepublic is a big fan of failure. A new essay reminds readers that “a failure-free climate is an innovation-free zone.”

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