One day chair challenge...

.: oomlout :.: One Day Chair Challenge Result? Success.…

The chair is complete. What started this morning as as an idea and progressed through computer drawings, and scale models has this afternoon materialized into an honest to goodness chair.

The result is admittedly not a design classic, but what we have learned during its design and ultimate construction has been astounding. Just imagine the possibilities that develop if you can make as many mistakes as we did today, everyday. Each day ending with a product that is just a little bit better than yesterdays. We’re excited. We’ll leave it on one final point; the business mantra that Stuart has been repeating ad nauseam of late (and the rest of us are starting to subscribe to).

“The secret to success is being able to make mistakes faster” (Stuart McFarlan)

(in terms of attribution he’s currently claiming he came up with it but we’re pretty sure he’s lying, if you know where the proper credit lies drop us a line, Clement and I would love to burst this particular bubble)

6 Responses to One day chair challenge…

Joshua on March 1st, 2009 at 5:14 pm said:

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/john_w_holt_jr.html

Maybe it was John W. Holt Jr.?

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bgarland on March 1st, 2009 at 6:26 pm said:

The Army has long said to soldiers in training “Fail faster to succeed sooner.” Also frequently attributed as “Fail faster, succeed sooner” to David Kelley, founder of IDEO.

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Pete Wood on March 2nd, 2009 at 12:29 am said:

I read an article about software development at NASA http://www.sinz.org/Michael.Sinz/Software.html

They had a poster on the wall which had the following:

‘The sooner you fall behind, the more time you will have to catch up’

I currently have a desktop wallpaper saying:

‘Fail early, fail often’

it seems quite common.

An old boss of mine used to say “There’s nothing wrong with making mistakes, just make sure they’re new ones”

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Sylvain on March 2nd, 2009 at 1:02 am said:

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Confucius

â€œWhat does not destroy me, makes me stronger.â€ Friedrich Nietzsche

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Ted on March 2nd, 2009 at 1:45 am said:

“Seymour Cray was a friend of my dad’s. I asked him what it was like to know the genius who had built the world’s first supercomputer company. My dad said, Well, actually, son, he wasn’t so much smarter than me. He just made mistakes a hundred times faster.”
- Townes Duncan

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stuart | oomlout on March 2nd, 2009 at 11:19 am said:

Thanks for all the help in tracking down attribution. I’m a little gutted it turns out to be one of the many things I heard and then somehow began to think was mine.

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