Re:Which Way Do You Run?
by ImprovedSilence on Thursday October 17, 2019 @10:08PM
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I mean, isn't a whole big shtick of the Silicon Valley mindset that it tolerates, even celebrates, failure? And insists on learning from it. If you don't make it running a company, maybe you can make it from writing, just don't stop trying to make it. Fall down seven times, stand up eight, etc..
That's a great principle, but they key to realize its value is actually learning from it, and one of the most important lessons here is that in startups, spectacular successes are driven by luck. If that one lesson doesn't sink in, then all other "learning from failure" is akin to training your machine learning model on random noise.
Re:Which Way Do You Run?
by notyourday on Friday October 18, 2019 @08:20AM
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> If you don't make it running a company, maybe you can make it from writing, just don't stop trying to make it.
Isn't that confusing what someone who fails should do ( do it again/do something else/try another path) with what those who see it should do ( not listen to whoever failed about how to succeed at doing what the failed person did )?
I'm always baffled that people who flop in the most spectacular way manage to convince others to buy books with advice from them.
I distinctly remember an article about a year or so ago touting a new managing partner(?) at a VC who ran his one and only startup into the ground. The logic was "He can help you not to do what he did"