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Engineering Failure

Head First Labs · 2008 · Author

Since we all tend to learn through failure, to what degree should the learning process involve the deliberate engineering of failure? Published on Head First Labs in 2008, exploring why the most effective technical books are the ones that let readers stumble before they’re handed the answer.

The annotated version, with what it looks like now, is in the Vault.