The Hacker Ethic

Hacking at self, ethics, and life.

Failure is optional

You tried. You failed. You gave up. It’s done; you’ve given up.

Loser.

Failure is all you. It’s the simple choice to stop trying, forever.

It isn’t in the trying. It isn’t in the sucking at it. It isn’t even in the not winning at something. It’s the giving up and never ever trying again. It’s a choice to fail. It’s your choice to fail. And it’s a choice that’s easy to make because something is hard, because you’re lazy, and because it hurts your fucking ego too much to work through the suck.

It’s a bad choice.

You will fail most of the time. But anything can be mastered, even if most things are difficult. And if you understand that anything can be learned, you can continue trying. It’s that continuing that staves off the death of failure.

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    profound stuff. Learn from it.
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