Robert Greene explains in Mastery that the Wright Bros. had a tight budget and were forced to make small, cheap tweaks to each model.
They would fly a plane, crash it, tweak it, and fly it again quickly. The corporations had budgets that allowed them to go back to the drawing board (i.e. abstraction) with each failure.
They spent a ton of money and time on each redesign. The Wright Bros. had a hundred test flights in the time it took these big corporations to complete a handful.
Every test flight taught lessons – the one who failed fastest gathered the most information.
from http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/05/19/10-overlooked-truths-about-taking-action/
They would fly a plane, crash it, tweak it, and fly it again quickly. The corporations had budgets that allowed them to go back to the drawing board (i.e. abstraction) with each failure.
They spent a ton of money and time on each redesign. The Wright Bros. had a hundred test flights in the time it took these big corporations to complete a handful.
Every test flight taught lessons – the one who failed fastest gathered the most information.
from http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/05/19/10-overlooked-truths-about-taking-action/
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