Things Learned in May This was a month that was designed to experiment. I wanted to take apart certain aspects of my life and try different things. Here are some of the things I did, as well as the …
2017 In Review: Failure
Failure is fascinating. At the moment, it is destructive. You are emotionally crushed, feeling, well, like a failure. Sometimes, the best disinfectant of that feeling is making that failure public. …
Failure Comes With The Job
Are you trying something new? Say it with me: "failure comes with the job. " Maybe you know that already. Perhaps you spent your career taking risks and capitalizing on other people being risk …
Embrace the Pain of Failure
Failure is a checklist Losing doesn't feel good. I don't care how you spin it when you lose and you give a damn, it hurts. Emotional pain is real. The difference, though, and what distinguishes a …
Rather a Few Failures than a Never Was…
The project graveyard is better than a speech Don't be that guy. You know, the one that is always at the meetup. He knows everyone, he sees every blog post, he understands every reference you throw …
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2016 in Review: Failure
At the end of the year, I take the time to reflect. This post, and the others like it, are my lessons for 2016. My hope is by reading them; you get a sense of what my overall lessons were. My hope is …