Currently listening on infinite repeat to Alpha by Yung Titties. Sometimes you just need the boost. Especially when you are dealing with failures. Your own in particular.
Had a failure, had to rethink, had to admit to the failure and the rethink. AND change the way I behave in the team. That’s enough for a girl to need some Alpha - “When I’m in a car I’m driving it…When I’m in a meeting I’m in charge”.
Roughly at the same time Migan responded to my question on whether she wanted to cowrite a white paper with me. She suggested we should write about HARD, F* PAINFUL software product failures that we made. She pointed out that LinkedIn is all about success. If there ever is a failure surfacing it is all about learnings and being a better person etc. The truth about failure is that it hurts and it takes balls to admit it, to learn from it, to move on. We are more than happy to continue and pretend there is no failure or at least that it wasn’t us who failed.
She is closing down her business, I just survived a bankruptcy so the white paper will be dynamite.
“When I’m in a plane I’m the pilot”.
Still Alpha.