[chavesn]

I wanted to like this article, because I agree with the premise, but the author went a bizarre direction in trying to prove his thesis.

As constructed, several far-fetched notions would have to be true to support the conclusion in the way he argued:

- the high failure rate must be due largely to bad ideas and not to poor execution

- sleep deprivation must be endemic at Google, Facebook and Twitter

- Google Glass and Android Wear (and corresponding FB and Twitter projects) must be the product of the sleep-deprived, and shown to be bad ideas (kind of early), and representative of projects at the company.

I think it would be easier to show that lack of sleep just results in poor work. It certainly makes more intuitive sense than honing in on the problem of "crazy" ideas.