wrong = right

Ira Glass on the importance of being wrong:

"One of the reasons I was interested in doing this interview is because I feel like being wrong is really important to doing decent work. To do any kind of creative work well, you have to run at stuff knowing that it’s usually going to fail. You have to take that into account and you have to make peace with it. We spend a lot of money and time on stuff that goes nowhere. It’s not unusual for us to go through 25 or 30 ideas and then go into production on eight or 10 and then kill everything but three or four. In my experience, most stuff that you start is mediocre for a really long time before it actually gets good. And you can’t tell if it’s going to be good until you’re really late in the process. So the only thing you can do is have faith that if you do enough stuff, something will turn out great and really surprise you."

I ripped this from an anonymous design crush's bloggins. I like his insight:

"I love the idea of inexperience — the idea that you can develop a skill set that transcends any formal discipline, and move from project to project as both an experienced problem solver, but also a complete rookie in that realm. There are so many aspects of a successful idea that are just unmasterable..."

I love this idea too. I think inexperience is one of the most unique things we have, because where did it come from? It isn't learned. It isn't gained. It's a non-thing (or no-thing), a void. If we can somehow accept inexperience as a way to approach things (which I think coincides with embracing failure) then we might embark on some new frontiers.

(thanks keenan)

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Another thing, Wikipedia (the ultimate freesource) has taught me a lot about collaboration. Read at least the opening few paragraphs. It says in here that collaboration is "a deep collective, determination to reach an identical objective—for example an intruiging [sic] endeavor that is creative in nature—by sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus." Beautiful.