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‘Success through Failure: the Paradox of Design’ by Henry Petroski
A little perspective for those who think they have reached the top.
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A little perspective for those who think they have reached the top.
#TheUnitLibrary #BookClub 🧵
April #professionaldevelopment
History is often viewed as a series of conquests and successes resulting in a modern humans sitting at the paramount of civilization. Petroski turns this on it's head through an analysis of design and engineering failures that stimulated invention and innovation.
“Successful tests are unremarkable... Failures are remarkable. The failures always teach us more than the successes about the design of things.”
