June 2016 – Owen Biesel

Health is not a virtue

June 26, 2016

I was a healthy child. I had a healthy immediate family, too. We all got sick occasionally, and my sisters and I have all broken a bone at some point, but we just weren’t the sort of people to have chronic ailments or other serious health concerns. At least, that’s the best I could muster … More Health is not a virtue

The three stages of correcting failure

June 20, 2016

James Clear recently wrote a blog post on what he calls the three stages of failure, which I found quite insightful. I’d like to respond here, so I’ll briefly review his definitions and advice, and at the end I’ll give some examples of failure diagnosis from a board game called 7 Wonders. The three stages of … More The three stages of correcting failure