One of the harder things about working in tech is a non trivial percentage of new ideas fail. You and the team decide to try something, you pour a few months of your life into it and it doesn’t come together.
Maybe the idea wasn’t as good as you hoped, maybe you just don’t have the skill to land the plane. Often it just ends up in practice sucking or the technology is almost there but not quite.
The funniest part is how instantly when a project fails everyone you know will start to share stories of ideas they had that failed. It’s my favorite part, this sudden outpouring of “oh man at Microsoft we had this idea and….” It’s very bonding and illuminating but also humbling.
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