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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
A Writer’s Ideas on His Failed Thoughts
Farhad Manjoo speaks about his time at Slate magazine and the failure of email. But he insists his most popular stories came from thoughts that were barely put together.
Majoo starts this article as a way to begin his farewell to Slate magazine. He decided that one of his last columns just had to be about the failure of email. But one part of his article really intrigued us.
“Some of my most popular Slate stories began as such half-assed thoughts.”
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His popular articles such as his dislike of dogs and why restaurant websites are terrible stemmed from his original, incomplete thought about using two spaces after a period. That post propelled Manjoo to his success, but the writer admits that it was really just a flicker of an idea, not even fully formed. He used the success of his failed thought process to prove that failure can actually be quite successful!
