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mattstocum ◴[16 Aug 13 12:45 UTC] No.6223613[source]▶

And how many failed projects came out of 20% time?

1. tomjen3 ◴[16 Aug 13 13:10 UTC] No.6223741[source]▶

None, failures tend to be abandoned early in most cases.

Besides if you care about failure then you don't belong in the tech industry.

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2. jimmaswell ◴[16 Aug 13 14:03 UTC] No.6224011[source]▶

What a strange sentiment. We should all just not care about being successful?

3. lmm ◴[16 Aug 13 14:26 UTC] No.6224159[source]▶

How many successes you had matters. How many failures you had in addition is basically irrelevant.

4. tomjen3 ◴[17 Aug 13 15:22 UTC] No.6229313[source]▶

You should care about successes, but you should ignore the failures that will follow.

Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead