This post is from tryingtokeepitagile.com by Lynn Grant.
It has long been known in engineering circles that much can be learned from failure. Claude Albert Claremont, in his 1937 book on bridge building, “Spanning Space,” wrote:
The history of engineering is really the history of breakages, and of learning from those breakages. I was taught at college “the engineer learns most on the scrapheap.”
In one of my past lives, I was involved in performance car rallying. This involved racing in beefed-up cars over forest logging roads. In the ’70s, there was a driver named John Buffum. His day job was running a car dealership in Vermont, but he was also the top rally driver in the U.S. and had factory support from British Leyland, who supplied him with Triumph TR-7s, like this one:
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