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A Successful Failure

01.06.2008

Failure isn’t something we like to talk about. In business, for every Google, there’s hundreds, if not thousands, of companies that fail to achieve success every year. Failure makes people uncomfortable, so uncomfortable that we have a hard time talking about it and acknowledging its role in life. At the Mills College 1983 Commencement, author [...]

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Rock-'em-sock-'em Competition

11.05.2007

I’m relatively new to the tech world, so I wasn’t aware of the competition between Engadget and Gizmodo or the history between their founders. Fortune put together a helpful round-up of the characters. While I found the story interesting, I thought one of the most important ideas was in the last paragraph:
When pressed, the two [...]

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Masterly Skills

10.19.2007

Varying stories about masters of their craft have floated around for years. My friend Penny recently highlighted the masterly skills of a cobbler who saved her favorite shoes:
This cobbler is a master of his craft. I’ve now had him rebuild the soles of two pairs of my shoes, neither pair were “easy” cases. Today I [...]

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