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by blueboo 2178 days ago
“But I learned something” Is an extremely low bar for evaluating an outcome.

“But I learned something and applied it to make the next effort a success” is the natural valuable contribution...that we (quite tellingly) almost never hear about.

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> “But I learned something and applied it to make the next effort a success” is the natural valuable contribution...that we (quite tellingly) almost never hear about.

This is literally every "success" blog post out there. They always start with an early failure and how that launched/pushed/pulled them toward later success.