Great post by Red Hat’s Karsten Wade on the role of failure in Fedora (and in life). One of the key tenets of both the open source and design thinking movements is the 
idea of “failing fast.” To innovate, we need to overcome the fear of failure, and learn how, as Karsten notes, failure is a sign that we have pushed things to their limits. Because that’s where you have to be if you want to innovate:)
One of the gurus of the failing fast mentality is David Kelley of IDEO– the guy who started the Stanford “d-school” and a leader of the design thinking movement. Here’s a Fast Company article from a couple of years ago where he talks some more about how to suceed by failing fast.
BTW, looks like a little double ‘http’ snuck in to the link for my post:
http://iquaid.org/2009/02/28/failure-as-the-secret-of-success/
“Failing fast”, yes, that is exactly it! Thanks, Grams.
Posted by Karsten Wade | June 5, 2009, 2:55 am