When Anesthesia Goes Wrong
A teenage boy went into surgery for a broken arm and emerged with brain damage. His mother was determined to figure out what had happened.
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Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You’ve Probably Never Heard Of | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series
The Prestige disaster poured 20 million gallons of oil into the Atlantic ocean — almost twice what spilled out of the infamous Exxon Valdez in Alaska.
The "Grit" Myth: Why Internal Drive Predicts Zero Percent Of Founder Success - Dataconomy
Back in 2018, I watched the tech ecosystem break in real time. Over the course of twelve months, I lost
Spirit Didn't Die From What You Think It Died From
On May 2, 2026, Spirit Airlines stopped flying. Roughly 300 flights and 60,000 passengers a day were instantly orphaned. Seventeen thousand people lost their jobs. United, Delta, JetBlue, and Southwest capped rebooking fares at around $200 one way, which is the closest thing a…
#55: The New Mexico medevac crash is about more than GPS Jamming
Pilots do not get an asterisk saying "GPS only" on their instrument ratings.
General Dynamics Failed to Build Artillery Shells for the Army — ProPublica
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a real-life dumpster fire.
Your Power Tools Got Worse On Purpose | Who Really Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?
How TTI and Stanley Black & Decker took the same playbook in opposite directions.
Why some commercial fusion plans are born to fail
While physicists chase energy gain, investors in fusion power are chasing the bottom line. A new way of evaluating economic viability suggests some are barking up the wrong tree
The End of Eleventy
Build Awesome is a rebrand of 11ty/Eleventy, backed by a successful $40k Kickstarter. But this attempt to monetize static site generators repeats the same mistakes that killed Gatsby and Stackbit—and misunderstands who actually builds static sites.
Why Insect Farming Startups Are Going Bankrupt
Despite the initial hype, insect agriculture is facing the economic realities of competing with the traditional meat industry.
Loot Drop - The Startup Graveyard
Explore 925+ failed startups and learn from $32.5B+ in burned venture capital. Discover why they failed, their market potential, and how to rebuild them.
The Biggest Failure in a Century of Sneakers Is Now Complete. It’s Almost Unbelievable How We Got Here.
In 103 years, there’s never been a flameout quite like this.
How to Learn from a Failed Negotiation
Turn a loss into future wins.
How Beautycounter Fell Apart, Sinking Almost $700 Million With It
When the private equity firm Carlyle bought Beautycounter, the skin care brand that people sold at kitchen tables, everything changed.
Columbia's Last Flight
The inside story of the investigation—and the catastrophe it laid bare
From $1B to bankrupt: How private equity killed Beautycounter, the beloved
After selling to the Carlyle Group, the brand went from $1 billion to broke. Inside its rise and fall—and possible rise again.
Are you a “harbinger of failure”?
An MIT study finds the same consumers tend to purchase failed products. Dubbed “harbingers of failure,” these buyers may provide new window into consumer behavior and behavioral economics.
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I worked in a video store for 25 years. Here’s what I learned as my industry died.
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Cavemen, Samurais and Fight Club on breaking through failure | Spikelab.org - Mentoring social entrepreneurs for impact
There's an increasing amount of talk around failure and the fear of it, but it's largely missing the point. Here's why
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Don't set goals. Passion is bullshit. Mediocre skills are valuable. These are just a few of the unexpected truths you'll discover in Scott Adams' new book. Here are 10 more takeaways.
Winamp’s woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself
15 years on, Winamp “still lives”—but mismanagement blunted its llama-whipping.
Pando: Democratizing career progression
Democratizing career progression
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
Closing stores requires a deliberate, systematic approach to price markdowns and inventory transfers. The result, say Ananth Raman and Nathan Craig, is significant value for the retailer and new opportunities for others.
6 Reasons Platforms Fail
Perhaps the most egregious is a failure of imagination.
The rise of the "successful" unsustainable company
We're funding too many unsustainable companies.
Watching an acquirer ruin your company - by Jon Christensen
What happens on the other side of the acquisition doesn't get much startup press
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Failure mode and effects analysis
Failure mode and effects analysis is the process of reviewing as many components, assemblies, and subsystems as possible to identify potential failure modes in a system and their causes and effects. For each component, the failure modes and their resulting effects on the rest of…
Failing well
Failure sucks. Nobody wants to fail. But in the start-up world, most people are doing just that. I'm not sure I've read much about "how" to fail, since failure is so depressing and negative. But I'm...
autopsy.io - Domain Name For Sale | Dan.com
I found a great domain name for sale on @undeveloped. Check it out!
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How to Succeed at Failure
Sometimes you just can’t win. Make the most of it.
Ask HN: Show your failed projects and share a lesson you learned | Hacker N
Failure Is An Option: How To Unwind An Unsuccessful Startup The Right Way –
Unwind An Unsuccessful Startup The Right Way - Many startups fail, but few founders prepare for unwinding. Find out how to do this & deal with investors.
There's a Giant Warehouse Full of Product Launches That Failed
Not open to the public, this expansive archive schools marketers in the art of pitchmanship
Tails, You Win · Collaborative Fund
Steamboat Willie put Walt Disney on the map as an animator.
How to Overcome Your Fear of Failure
People are quick to blame themselves for failure. But not doing something because you’re afraid to get started isn’t going to help you grow. Here are four strategies to help you get over the hump. Start by redefining what failure means to you. If you define failure as the…