Fuckups
failure is something to be ashamed of. This perception lives on long into adulthood, even in people who have learned to parrot the oft-repeated arguments about the upside of failure.
Amy Wallace • Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
because of the failure of language in the face of catastrophe.
Nick Cave • Faith, Hope and Carnage
THE “FAIL FAST, fail often, fail forward” mantra is all the rage in Silicon Valley. Failure is viewed as inspirational fodder, a rite of passage, a secret handshake shared by the insiders. Countless business books instruct entrepreneurs to embrace failure and flaunt it as a badge of honor. There are conferences, such as FailCon, dedicated to celebr
... See moreOzan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
Every success story can be told as a series of failures.
Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments
If you haven’t already, you will soon need to accept you are going to fail a lot. You will make bad decisions, waste time, waste money, run ineffective ads, miss deadlines, and release buggy code. Each time this happens, you have to accept that you failed and move on.