Steven Kovar Tinkerer, designer, space cadet.

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Failure to Communicate

Growing up, I always assumed breakdowns in communication and fickle relationships were strictly teenage issues—that adults somehow divined the answers in their transition from kid to grownup. Turns out I was wrong. At home, in the office, or between friends, most issues in

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Destined to Fail

This is the story ofBill. Bill is a field technician working as a contractor for Time Warner Cable. He doesn't know it yet, but he is assigned to my cable installation today (thanks to him I am able to write this—thanks

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Fail Forward

Our concept of failure is broken. We fear failure, feel defeated by it, and can be discouraged by just the prospect of failure alone. To many, the term "failure" is a simple heuristic [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic#Psychology]—a mental

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Social Vanity

So vain are we. Pinterest, Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter. We Like it; we Love it; we spend countless hours on it. For what? Social media is a talent trap. It's where good, honest manhours go to die. If only we spent as much

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