On Failed Projects...

Some projects fail on a random Wednesday. Sometimes they fail when the next step requires a skill you don't yet have, and the project's progress becomes directly tied to the speed at which you can learn it. Loool :)

Even when a project ultimately fails, very little of the effort is wasted. The test might never succeed and the idea might never leave the workshop. But the knowledge stays. One failed project taught me more about routing wires through impossibly tight spaces than it ever taught me about the thing I was actually trying to build. Another taught me patience. Another taught me when to stop. Looking back, some of the projects that produced the least on paper ended up teaching me the most.