Tag: Mistakes

Before I get into this post, I want to also point you to another post that I wrote for the Value Capture blog: Salem Health...

Of the 32 episodes of the "My Favorite Mistake" podcast that I've released so far, the episode with Billy Taylor has been the most...

The main recurring theme in the "My Favorite Mistake" podcast series is learning from mistakes. I've been trying to do more reading on this...

The other day, I had an external hard drive completely fail. I lost the last 10 days' worth of data. That wasn't supposed to...

Thanks to my friend Brian Buck (and his co-host Catalina Park) for having me as the first guest in their podcast series (in previous...

While I'm mostly staying home because of the pandemic, I sometimes treat myself to a Starbucks beverage while I'm out running errands. I have traditionally...

General Jim Mattis has been making the rounds to talk about his new book that is out today: Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead. "Learning...

This past Saturday was, of course, the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. It still puzzles me why mankind hasn't been back on...

My wife recently had some work meetings in Louisville, Kentucky and she had a great idea... "Why don't you fly here on Thursday night...

Speaking of mistakes, the cover image I selected for today's post reminds of traveling this past Monday. At DFW airport, a company was giving...

Be honest, would you have seen the intentional typo in the post title if I hadn't put it on quotation marks? It's still not...

I really don't enjoy the type of "Throwback Thursday" posts that are triggered by something in the news that reminds me of something that I've blogged about in the past. Sometimes, it seems people are doomed to keep repeating the same preventable errors instead of learning from others, improving systems, and mistake proofing things in life. In this post, we look back at repeated errors in pathology, building demolition, and emergency alert systems...