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Writing about failure

I've wanted to start a blog with my take on tech and entrepreneurship. I'm new to writing like this, but one of the themes I want to explore is failure because there are too many stories of success. Not my first flop, but I believe I have a fresh one here:
Scrapping an idea

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    Janet, this is a very good initiative. I enjoyed reading.

    I think the most important thing you get from any of your activity is the knowledge. Knowledge accounting is what makes you succeed in the end. Fail fast, learn from that, use gained knowledge in your next step.

    And if you share your knowledge with others, you make knowledge accounting even more powerful. I saw companies run hundreds of experiments per month and couldn’t even use gained knowledge by themselves. That is because they lack ecosystems for storing, categorizing and sharing.

    So if you are looking for the feedback, I can suggest next:

    1. Be specific and consistent in your posts so you can bring the relevant audience.
    2. Probably you need to come up with the clear structure. What was the problem – what was done – what was the result – what you’ve learnt – how you'll apply this knowledge (or how others can apply it)
    3. Think about the series where you can show how you reused the knowledge and finally succeed doing so (or post feedbacks from your audience how they reused your knowledge and their results)

    This is what came to my mind. Though I am not the audience for your area of expertise I wish I could learn from other people failures and save my lifetime. Hope you’ll find this helpful.

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    Nice blog post and definitely a story we all can relate to! I just spent all of February on building a product that never went live.

    Reminds me that I really should read "The Mom Test".

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    keep writing. it'll make your project and product better!

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    Hello, Janet!!! So happy to see you here :-) Would love to learn about what you're doing and working on now.

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    Great idea and good blog post.

    One idea is to have photos of these ideas on the posts.

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    Hi Janet,
    Great post!
    I love the writing and the subject.
    Keep em coming!
    Jonathan
    PS there's no CTA, I'd love to subscribe but can't...

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    Love this! I actually failed my first company and interviewed for a channel called Failory (https://www.failory.com/). Here's the interview if you're interested haha: https://www.failory.com/interview/community-coders

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    "it filled an intellectual demand by giving me a reason to exercise my skill set" - I think a lot of developers get this, I do too. I think hearing about the "failures" is useful - like you said it wasn't a total failure because you learned something, this is important too. There are so many success stories but the failures that fair outweigh them aren't heard about so much. I did see a site for a "startup graveyard" which was nice, startups that have failed and the reasons why, and a lot of gamers do postmortems - you can learn so much from them so yeah, keep it up!

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