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Failure: The Blog  

October 2012

  • 'Goldeneye' Creators Had Almost No Experience
  • Flushing Away an Enormous Problem
  • The Little Lie About the Biggest Mountain
  • You Should Unfriend 10 People on Facebook
  • Inventor of Most Popular Guitar Could Not Play Guitar
  • TV Show Star And High School Dropout

September 2012

  • In Praise of Mediocrity
  • The Failure to Patent a Billion Dollar Formula
  • This Bus Stop is a Fake
  • [VIDEO] A Hollywood Camera Move Made From Junk
  • Productivity Through Self Denial?
  • Harvard Business Review: Get Ready to Fail

August 2012

  • The Innovative Power of Lying
  • [VIDEO] You're Not That Great
  • The Failure of a Great Singer
  • James Cameron was Homeless
  • Something Worse Than Failure
  • Jackie Chan and the Plan to Fail
  • On Failure and Baseball

July 2012

  • Failure on the Radio
  • Complaint Calls Can Be Useful
  • The Terribly Useful Terrible Movie
  • FedEx's Big Gamble (No, Really)
  • Positive Fail, Dot Com
  • How Boring Attire Wins

June 2012

  • [VIDEO] Failing to Success / Harvard Business Review
  • Sly Stallone's Failures
  • The Secret Purpose of Computer Solitaire

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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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