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Turning Fear of Failure into Increments of Curiosity

July 13, 2023July 13, 2023

When I was younger, I badly wanted to live in Japan. Japan is a country with very strict immigration laws, but my university had an exchange program where you could go spend a semester and study in another country. There was only one problem: the Japanese university they had a partnership with was one of … Read More

Pre-mortem: how to anticipate failure with prospective hindsight

August 6, 2020August 6, 2020

Most people are familiar with post-mortem documentation, where team members come together at the conclusion of a project to record what went well and what didn’t. Fewer people have performed a pre-mortem before the start of a project. A pre-mortem is an exercise where we imagine that a project has failed, and where we work … Read More

Turning Fear of Failure into Increments of Curiosity

Pre-mortem: how to anticipate failure with prospective hindsight

Don’t work more. Work mindfully.

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