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Re:'Don’t ignore your stupid ideas.' by phillco on Thursday February 03, 2011 @04:45PM (#2177036)
Survivorship bias. Pretty common. "Look I failed" posts are much rarer.
Re:'Don’t ignore your stupid ideas.' by Mikushi on Thursday February 03, 2011 @05:33PM (#2177242)
And that's a shame, i think we could learn a lot from Post Mortem posts of projects, especially if the project fails. It's also a good habit for yourself, to look back at the project, and analyse it, the mistakes that were made, why it didn't work, what would you do differently if you were to start now. When i was a freelancer, and doing my own little flash games, i was almost always do a small report for myself on why it did/didn't work, always a good process to avoid making the same mistakes again and again.