I had a boss who always pushed me away from low-probability experiments. Whenever I suggested trying something that was unlikely to work, he probed to see if t

I had a boss who always pushed me away from low-probability experiments. Whenever I suggested trying something that was unlikely to work, he probed to see if the single low-probability experiment could be restructured as a series of 50/50 experiments. It turned a lot of failures into partial successes that could be applied to future problems.