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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
‘Goldeneye’ Creators Had Almost No Experience
Eight million copies of ‘Goldeneye’ were sold to videogame fans. Pretty impressive, considering almost everyone on the team had never worked on a game project before.
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Flushing Away an Enormous Problem
In one major city, there’s a massive sewage problem that is blocking infrastructure and creating a public health hazard. The solution? A coordinated, synchronized, city-wide toilet flush.
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The Little Lie About the Biggest Mountain
How tall is Mount Everest? For nearly a hundred years, the official number of 29,002 feet was actually a fabrication.
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You Should Unfriend 10 People on Facebook
Your Facebook friends are real people. But one marketing campaign challenged fans to dump ten friends to get a tasty prize. Seriously.
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Inventor of Most Popular Guitar Could Not Play Guitar
You may not have heard the name Leo Fender before, until you associate it with the Fender Stratocaster electric guitar. Most sources agree, however, that Leo couldn’t actually play.
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TV Show Star And High School Dropout
Every week, seven million viewers tune in to watch Rick Harrison on Pawn Stars. He’s a high school dropout.
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In Praise of Mediocrity
All of us want success. So why does investor, author, and entrepreneur James Altucher talk so openly about being mediocre?
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The Failure to Patent a Billion Dollar Formula
If you had invented an incredibly popular industrial chemical used by millions of people, you’d probably want it patented. So why haven’t the legal experts at WD-40 registered their invention with the federal government?
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This Bus Stop is a Fake
Almost everyone has been frustrated by waiting for the bus. But some of the bus stops in Germany are completely fake. You can wait, but no bus will come.
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[VIDEO] A Hollywood Camera Move Made From Junk
Amateur videographers everywhere know that any shot will look cheap and home made once you start to move the camera. That’s just the reality of inexpensive consumer equipment.
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