https://peertube.wtf/videos/watch/27631d98-d6ca-45a3-84a5-9efe23d8707c You learn more from failure than from success, and most of us still insist on making our own failures first. Success always involves luck. That is my take. I have been running businesses for 15 years. I have built several multi-million businesses, and I have watched them grow and watched them fail. The admiration people have for Silicon Valley founders worries me. Successful people rarely see how much their circumstances led to their success. You can make your own luck, but you cannot write the rules. If your dad owns a diamond mine, you can be a bad developer and still succeed in software. People with resources get to roll the dice many times, and we only see the rolls that stuck. That is survival bias, and it is dangerous if you build your life around the people you look up to. Failures travel better than successes. The failure conditions are the same for everybody. As a species we force ourselves to make our own failures until we learn, so you have to force yourself to look at other people's. As a society we admire success and sweep failures under the rug. We should start talking about them, especially in tech. From here this channel gets a new chapter. I will talk much more about my failures, my past and my history. A couple of my companies have failed, one is failing right now, some are doing well, and one is about to take flight. The lessons are baked into how I work, down to the technical tools. A senior engineer is somebody who has failed so many times they have learned how not to do it. Filmed in the rain, in my running gear. CHAPTERS 0:00 Success always involves luck 0:32 Why this video looks different 1:07 The admiration worries me 2:08 Remember the survival bias 3:05 Failures are universal 4:13 My failures, my history If you know someone who keeps copying the winners, send them this. And tell me about a failure of yours in the comments. That is my take. Music: StreamBeats by Harris Heller Thu, 12 Nov 2026 13:35:54 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://v.basspistol.org https://v.basspistol.org/lazy-static/avatars/d7490605-16bc-4b51-bf0a-6e1e62047873.png https://peertube.wtf/videos/watch/27631d98-d6ca-45a3-84a5-9efe23d8707c All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://v.basspistol.org/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.