Owly055
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A great title isn't it? I scanned down my Email and came across the daily Ziff Davis Publishing email (computer tech magazines) and came across this article title by Mark Samuels... a tech writer. The title summarizes my personal philosophy to a Tee....
Innovation in brewing is how progress is made. There are those of us who don't rock the boat, for whom "innovation" might be trying a different hop, or malt, or who might dare to build a recipe from scratch, and there are those of us who constantly push the boundaries, not just in brewing, but in every endeavor we turn our hand to.........That would be me. We have "failures" and brews that don't measure up to our hopes and expectations. I'm not blowing my own horn here..... I've made many mistakes, and failure is a constant companion, but so is success (less so)... But failures lay the groundwork for success, and create a foundation of understanding.
My childhood hero wasn't JFK, or some movie star, it was Buckminster Fuller, as those who remember him might imagine. A truly great man who not only thought outside the box, but lived outside the box. He looked at everything through different eyes than those around him. His writings, which I ready voraciously, covered many topics, from philosophy to engineering, and he lent a fresh perspective to everything he touched on. He succeeded, and he failed, but he kept pushing the boundaries of thought to the end of his life.
If you don't fail.... You truly are NOT innovating. Success is gratifying, failure is educational...
H.W.
Innovation in brewing is how progress is made. There are those of us who don't rock the boat, for whom "innovation" might be trying a different hop, or malt, or who might dare to build a recipe from scratch, and there are those of us who constantly push the boundaries, not just in brewing, but in every endeavor we turn our hand to.........That would be me. We have "failures" and brews that don't measure up to our hopes and expectations. I'm not blowing my own horn here..... I've made many mistakes, and failure is a constant companion, but so is success (less so)... But failures lay the groundwork for success, and create a foundation of understanding.
My childhood hero wasn't JFK, or some movie star, it was Buckminster Fuller, as those who remember him might imagine. A truly great man who not only thought outside the box, but lived outside the box. He looked at everything through different eyes than those around him. His writings, which I ready voraciously, covered many topics, from philosophy to engineering, and he lent a fresh perspective to everything he touched on. He succeeded, and he failed, but he kept pushing the boundaries of thought to the end of his life.
If you don't fail.... You truly are NOT innovating. Success is gratifying, failure is educational...
H.W.