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War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is
Strength.
And, of course: Failure is Success.
In many ways, Silicon Valley's attitude towards failure looks
refreshing.
And it's hard not to agree with "fail fast".
But when very successful people try to find at all cost some
failure they can talk about, one can't help but ask: Aren't they
overdoing it? [1]
Silicon Valley is this century's Hollywood. [2]
Thousands of ambitious young people flock to California every year.
The good-looking ones head to LA. Those who speak in
Python to their girlfriends head to the Bay Area.
And just like Hollywood, Silicon Valley too needs to accept and
even glorify failure.
Because failure is part of life. If you don't make it, someone else
will.
The bookies always win.
[1]
Do the small guys get to speak at
Fail‐Con, like at Barcamps? Or do only the big names and
the big failures get their chance, like in "real" conferences? ;-)
[2]
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers,
Into The Great Wide Open. Eddie waited till he finished
high school / He went to Hollywood, got a tattoo / He met a girl
out there with a tattoo too / The future was wide open...
