In early February, Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries announced that it was abandoning its effort to build a commercial jetliner that could compete with the aircraft built by global aerospace giants ...

“Failure isn’t a necessary evil. In fact, it isn’t evil at all. It is a necessary consequence of doing something new.” ― Ed Catmull, Creativity Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way ...

If you’ve talked to an engineering nerd or a tech bro recently, you’ve probably heard the phrase “fail fast, fail often” a lot. The idea is simple: Value trying and learning from failure rather than ...

The U.S. nuclear navy, created by Admiral Hyman Rickover, was an astonishing bureaucratic and cultural revolution in modern military history. Rickover’s belief in superior engineering, continuous ...