The Lessons of failure

The accepted wisdom is that Silicon Valley in a good place to fail because failure is seen as a way of learning to succeed. To some extent it's true and people often mistake luck for skill (OTOH, people seemed to have realized in the past few years that sometimes a failure is just a failure and when you make the same mistake twice people will notice). Anyhoo, Steve Wozniak (the inventor's inventor) has an article on the lessons he's learned from his failures - he's a good example of learning from your mistakes.