Don't Fail Fast. Learn Faster
summary
A 2x2 chart maps Learning (low→high) against Blast Radius (low→high) and classifies experiments as wasteful, ugly, redeemable, or beautiful. Examples are concrete: the Quebec Bridge collapse where 84 people died, United Flight 173’s high-learning crash data, and Pixar’s iterative process with 100K+ iterations moving low-cost drafts to finished film. Practical tools are explicit: run pre-mortems, schedule Failure Weeks, build software black boxes, and apply patterns from Release It by Michael T. Nygard.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 3:32FAILURE WEEKS
- 3:47SOFTWARE BLACKBOXES
- 4:02FAILURE IS FEEDBACK FROM SYSTEM
- 4:17EXPECT FAILURE, SET SYSTEM TO LEARN FROM IT
- 4:32FEATURE YOUR FAILURES!!
- 4:47TELL YOUR STORY!
- 5:02END RESULT - BETTER PROJECTS
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