Those Who Tinker Make Mistakes, So Make Lots of Mistakes
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A personal talk about learning from mistakes in IT and entrepreneurship, using real examples from on-call IT work and product deployments. The speaker recounts successful outcomes and the failures behind them, arguing that frequent errors teach you what matters and describing which mistakes they would repeat.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Success and failure
- 5:2010,000 hours theory
- 9:34Comfort zones and learning
- 13:26First mistakes
- 17:40First company
- 25:25Social impact projects
- 30:00Entrepreneurship after layoff
- 33:53Entrepreneur life
- 36:48Q&A
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