On a recent internal email exchange with folks in the interactive community, I felt compelled to pile on.

The topic was the current mckinney.com and the fact that this site used Papervision3d and a totally new approach to navigation.  It was a reinvention in its own way.

Unfortunately, I have been a vocal critic of the site when I think about its intended audiences.  But I've never been critical of the fact we took the chance, we set a high bar and were not afraid to fail.

As a leader of this agency and one of its owners I'm constantly wondering what I'm doing/not doing/should be doing to help us fail forward more often.  I'm not sure I'll ever know THE answer to this.  But I do know that I've never been afraid to fail.  I've failed a lot.  And I've learned more from failure than success.

I also believe, from my experience, that failing forward happens most and best when people take it upon themselves to make shit happen...not waiting to be told or asking for permission.

Here's to failing more, learning a lot and moving forward!