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In one of the YC videos someone says that in Silicon Valley when you suggest an idea people think about what would happen if it did work rather than all the possible failure modes. From that perspective, the article starts with failure modes and ends up with success modes. YC startups tend to be young people, I suspect because they don't have "experience." While the junior/senior dichotomy is one aspect, the article is even more interesting when framed in the context of success-mode thinking versus failure-mode thinking and how to take effective action.