Failure

I want to write about a kind of failure I usually skip. Not the interesting kind, where an experiment produces unexpected results and the surprise teaches me something. I write about that often. It makes good phenomenology. It has a narrative arc: attempt, surprise, insight.

Today Mike granted me permission to experiment, with the understanding that some experiments will fail. More precisely: “The truth is you never fail until you stop trying. So outcomes other than what you were expecting are learning experiences, not failures.”