The Need for Experimentation and Detachment | Organizing Principles

“There is no such thing as failure–only feedback for course correction.”

It is rumored that a missile is of course over 90% of the time. That the purpose of its guidance systems are to constantly course correct, course correct, course correct. Most of the time, with an effective guidance system, we know that even given that necessity for course correction, the missile hits its intended target with a reasonably high level of accuracy.