School of Faliure

Fail Your Way to Glory!

Have you ever stopped to wonder why we need to be so goddamn good at everything? Are you a victim of the tyranny of success? 

It’s stressful trying to be successful, and no one can keep it up forever. We all fail, constantly. You get eggshell in the omelette, you send emails without the attachments, you shrink your cat’s favorite shirt in the wash. Everyday, humdrum failures, remarkable only by their banality.

It’s true: we’re going to fail a lot. But we don’t need to be bored doing it! Why not create spectacular, hilarious, liberating, ludicrous failures that will buoy your soul and catalyze your neurons?

At the School of Faliure, we help you dream up, design, and execute glorious failures. 

Maybe you’ll spend an afternoon recreating that beautiful cake you saw online, only to watch it fall flat on your counter. 

Maybe you’ll fail to follow the usual rules about how to attract a partner, and create a dating profile where you finally admit that your ideal date would petsit your lizard, collaborate on DIY wainscoting projects, and know all the lines and choreography from The Pirate Movie (the Director’s Cut, obviously).

Maybe you’ll submit a short story to 100 literary journals, collect 100 rejection letters, write a short story about your 100 rejections, get that story rejected, and then publish it anyway by paying $178,000 to have it printed as a full-page ad in the New York Times.

The School of Faliure is for you if: 

  • You are high-achieving and bored.
  • You love collaborating with others. 
  • You are ready to fail big! 

We currently offer four levels of consulting.

  • Online community. You gain access to resources, articles, and videos published by the School, and participate in a community of other folks who will help you plan and celebrate your failures. Only $5 per month, and includes subscription to the paid tier of my newsletter! (All prices in USD.) Sign up here!
  • Think tank. You participate in weekly small-group meetings with Indigo  and up to 7 other failers. Each person will develop and execute a spectacular failure. Includes access to the online community. $500 for 4 weeks. Sign up here!
  • One-on-one. You meet weekly with Indigo for targeted failure support. Includes access to the online community. $1000 for 4 weeks. Sign up here!
  • VIP. You’re planning something big and you want Indigo to be a full collaborator, not just a consultant. VIP clients are accepted by application only, please message for details. $20,000 for 6 months.