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The Best Decisions You’ve Never Made
Failure #61 - We spend adulthood arranging our lives around what we already like while forgetting that most of what we love was never a choice.
Aug 21
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Two Ingredients, One Messy Lesson
Failure #60 - Everyone edits out the struggle... which is exactly why everyone else's life looks easier than yours.
Aug 14
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The Fixable Failure That Happens Before We Even Start
Failure #59 - Why we're great at predicting the big stuff, terrible at the small stuff, and miserable as a result.
Aug 7
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The Failures You’ll Never Fix
Failure #58 - Humans are terrible at fixing their failures, but they're remarkably good at something else.
Jul 31
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Aaron Dinin
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Fail Watching
Failure #57 - The thing you’re looking for isn’t always in the direction you’re staring.
Jul 24
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Aaron Dinin
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The First Inning
Failure #56 - The more you know, the more frustrated you'll get with people who don't know.
Jul 17
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The Problem With Putting Out Fires
Failure #55 - Helping the people we love avoid bad things isn't always the best way to protect them.
Jul 10
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Living the Middle of the Story
Failure #54 - It's easy to simplify the past and a lot harder to contextualize the present.
Jul 3
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Are We Contractually Obligated to Fail?
Failure #53 - Why the best contracts are designed to embrace failure.
Jun 26
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When Failure Gets Bureaucratic
Failure #52 - Some failures are just a byproduct of living inside complex systems.
Jun 19
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Aaron Dinin
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The Eddies of the World
Failure #51 - Sometimes the best help you can get is a friendly smile.
Jun 12
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The Danger Hidden Inside Lazy Clichés
Failure #50 - The consequences of letting simple thinking do too much of the work.
Jun 5
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Learning to Fail
Strategies for unlearning all the terrible lessons school taught you about failure, courtesy of that Duke professor who keeps popping up on your other social media feeds, too.
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