Posts Tagged ‘Failure’

Rejection takes you further than success: why getting rejected a lot brought me here

Here’s something completely unoriginal: you’re going to get flat-ass rejected, crushing whatever self-indulgent perspective you have on yourself, and then you will go some place magical and it will change you. Here’s my submission to the #jcarn FAIL blog ring. In 2003, I was an involved and eager high school senior who struggled to focus [...]

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Failure is not an option, it’s a necessity: Technically Philly at BarCamp NewsInnovation

A year after focusing strictly on business, the three of us at Technically Philly took a softer approach at BarCamp NewsInnovation 2.0, which we again sponsored and organized [Notes here]. The event was held today, April 24, 2010, again at Temple University. Find video, our slides and presentation notes from our talk below. Failure is [...]

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Failed post for BNet

I have been pretty active developing my blogging skills. No, seriously, there are blogging skills. So, when I saw that BNet, an online business news site launched in 2007 by CNet Networks, was looking for bloggers, I wanted to give it a go. I’ve been in talks with some folks there, who wanted me to [...]

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