My Failure Resume

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Post by jimhi » Thu, Mar 16, 2023, 1:47 PM UTC

My Failure Resume
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Re: My Failure Resume

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Post by qarrington0 » Thu, Mar 16, 2023, 2:31 PM UTC

Hmm, if only you could add a bit of information.

Re: My Failure Resume

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Post by erikbhn » Thu, Mar 16, 2023, 2:33 PM UTC

Are you the Opentrons guy?

And yes, this is the time for my favorite quote of all time:

Ever tried, ever failed, no matter!

Try again, fail again... fail better.

- Samuel Beckett

(punctuation by me, probably)

Re: My Failure Resume

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Post by mdrzn » Thu, Mar 16, 2023, 2:37 PM UTC

Damn you've done and tried a lot of stuff!

What I've learned from that resume is that you can fail 100 times, but all you need to be "set" is one ZipX that gives you the cash freedom to chase other dreams.

Re: My Failure Resume

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Post by danuker » Thu, Mar 16, 2023, 2:40 PM UTC

Amazing! I think failures are just as important as successes when learning what works.

Unfortunately, many business books just take the top X people by net worth and analyze what they did, but that is not enough.

Stated in Bayes' theorem terms: to compute P(success | actions) you also need P(actions) and P(success), not just P(actions | success) which are the success stories.

P(actions) and P(success) require knowledge from failures as well, not just successful actions.

Thanks for the courage of sharing your failures!

Re: My Failure Resume

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Post by sanman811 » Thu, Mar 16, 2023, 2:41 PM UTC

This feels like a good reminder of the obsessiveness (and narcissism?) it takes to actually create something successful.

Kudos to him for putting it all out there

Re: My Failure Resume

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Post by Mizoguchi » Thu, Mar 16, 2023, 2:42 PM UTC

This is much more helpful than reading about success stories. Thanks for sharing.

Re: My Failure Resume

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Post by mittermayr » Thu, Mar 16, 2023, 2:43 PM UTC

At first I was like, yeah, another one of those "follow my life as an indie dev" promos, then I scrolled down to your list of job "failures", and it was incredibly interesting to see just HOW MUCH some people get done in life.

If you tend to be somewhat critical of self-promos, I'd still recommend you take a moment and at least scroll down on that page and see for yourself. Very impressive. Just goes to show that you can indeed turn the dial well up to 11.

Re: My Failure Resume

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Post by jimhi » Thu, Mar 16, 2023, 2:44 PM UTC

sanman811 wrote: post #6

This feels like a good reminder of the obsessiveness (and narcissism?) it takes to actually create something successful. Kudos to him for putting it all out there

I would like at least one person to see this and think "Man, a lot of those ideas are actually pretty dumb and he couldn't even pass a tech interview, I could do this better and faster."

Re: My Failure Resume

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Post by MauranKilom » Thu, Mar 16, 2023, 2:46 PM UTC

mdrzn wrote: post #4

Damn you've done and tried a lot of stuff! What I've learned from that resume is that you can fail 100 times, but all you need to be "set" is one ZipX that gives you the cash freedom to chase other dreams.

That item being several orders of magnitude above all the others is an interesting context, for sure. Regarding the "being set", it would be helpful to have a date on that item in particular. The Forbes "30 under 30" is from 2021, but I haven't been able to trace the age of the company on first try...