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Steaming Pile of Failure
Agile development is not just about adapting to changing in schedule, interdependencies and uncovered considerations. They can also be about resilience to the work environment around the development...
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Huge Scam Artists
Adams regularly explores the disconnect between how we see the world and how it really operates. His post “The Monty Hall Problem and Schrodinger’s Cat” illustrates this conundrum well… “This...
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Embracing the Failure of Belief
Scott Adams’ post “My Skeptical Journey” is autobiography of sceptical doubt that only seems to intensify and expand as his life goes on. In a transparently public confessional, he provides an open...
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Creative Destruction
Joseph Schumpeter’s birthday today. The coiner of the failure embracing oxymoron “Creative Destruction”. The volcano eruption that creates a new island. The typhoon that carves a new coastline. The...
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Responding to Oops
“[A comic strip] has to be drawn well enough, not perfectly. No one goes to a rock concert because the band is in tune. They have to be close enough to not be distracting, but being in tune isn’t...
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Too Big Wig to Fail
Today marks the anniversary of the biggest business failure in USA history – the bankruptcy of the revered investment house, Lehmann Brothers. Seven years on, the economy is just now emerging from...
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Resolving not to Resolve
I’m not the only one not making New Year’s Resolutions. For starters, Scott Adams’ book on embracing failure “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big” includes the biting aphorism “Goals...
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Craziest Guys in the Room
“My observation over a lifetime is that when it comes to a fight, the craziest person has a huge advantage because he’s not worried about his own losses.” – Scott Adams, “Our Moon Shot” This blog...
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False Findings
Tom Scott shouldn’t feel too bad about his findings as false finding are the stock and staple of the entire domain of science. In fact, the post “Why all research findings are false” by the “Devil’s...
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Entrepreneurial Quitting
“I knew a guy with passion to be a pro golfer and the brain to be a great accountant. He followed his passion. He’s homeless now.” – Scott Adams (tweet) Some people just don’t know when to quit...
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