Tag: Failed

  Davin Granroth , my manager in 2012, first introduced me to Design Thinking through the lens of the double diamond — a model that immediately intrigued me. It laid out a process of diverging and converging, of exploring and refining. Eager to delve deeper, I turned to “...

“While you think about your decision, I’m going in to meet your mother and work my voodoo.” Yes, these were words spoken by the hospice case worker assigned to help my mother find peace and comfort as she neared the end of her life. Those horrible moments occurred five ye...

For nearly three full centuries, the most accurate way that humanity kept track of time was through the pendulum clock. From its initial development in the 17th century until the invention of quartz timepieces in the 1920s, pendulum clocks became staples of household life, enabling people to or...

I’ve been sober since the end of 2016, but I made a lot of failed attempts to quit drinking before learning to stick with it. There was one particularly embarrassing ill-fated attempt from sometime in my early- or mid-twenties. (It’s been so long that I can’t remember the exact ...