Astro Teller, a Google engineer, in his 2016 TED talk on failure, highlights the necessity of failure for innovation. He claims there are two aspects that go into every dream which interplay dynamically. The first is "unchecked optimism" , which fuel our visions. The second is "enthusiastic skepticism" which breathes reality into our visions. Teller elaborates on this relationship by describing his fellow engineers procedure of "creating" and "killing" ideas inside his moonshot factory. The unchecked optimism is what generates the elaborate and revolutionary ideas. Their next step is what seems rather contradictory-- their next task is to try as hard as they can to find evidence against their ideas, thus killing the project, and moving on. This way, you get to know the flaws of a a project at the beginning, rather than in the ninth inning. This is the "enthusiastic skepticism" that Teller described earlier. Now, this may seem rath
