This is fascinating and useful in almost any discipline, I think. I would love to create a book that's just long-form interviews with people about projects that failed -- for all the different values of "failure" -- exploring how and why in detail. Doing history of technology makes you deeply aware how much failure matters, far more success in most cases -- it's often just the epiphenomenon of far deeper processes of failing.

Good summary of the extraordinary career of _why?, the intensely secretive and funny coder, teacher, musician, cartoonist and gadabout who shut his own persona down last year. "We do our work and go."