Failure
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2017
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Failure. How do you deal with it? How to learn from it? How do you know when you should give up vs keep pushing?
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The Show Notes!
01:34
- Scott and Wes shoot the shit
- Wes is back from the DotJS conference
- Wes does a terrible (and hopefully not offensive) French Accent
03:50
- What's the deal with the #FailFast culture
- We talk about Fear of Failure and how it can stop you from starting anything at all
- High Stakes vs Low Stakes Failure
09:20
- Be aware of how fear of failure manifests itself in your work
- Just do it, put in the work
- Pen to Paper
12:20
- How to deal with mid-project failure
- Getting sick of a project part way through
- Finishing Things is such an underrated skill
- Small wins is key for confidence
- Take the emotion out of the decisions
18:00
- MVP - Minimum Viable Product
19:30
- Do you plan for failure?
- Wes' Life is Course Correction
- Wes is Unapologetically Confident
- Scott is Ignorantly Confident
23:00
- Another one of Scott's amazing segueways into our Sponsor
26:20
- Wes' Facebook Ads Failures
- The cost of admission
- Own your role in something failing
33:33
- Eating burnt rice is a huge character trait
- Pivoting
41:20
- Our own personal failures detailed
- Scott's Soundcloud
- Scott's Bandcamp
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there. |
| 0:06.0 | Strap yourself in and get ready. |
| 0:08.0 | Here is Scott Tolinsky and West Boss. |
| 0:10.9 | And welcome to Syntax. In this episode we're going to be talking all about our |
| 0:16.8 | failures, our thoughts on failure, our thoughts on how to recover from |
| 0:22.0 | failure and what you can grow and learn from failure, |
| 0:24.5 | how we've all failed on our projects, basically all things, both failure and success here. |
| 0:31.3 | This episode is brought to you by Snip Kart and DevLifts. Snip Kart is, well speaking of failures, we talked about our, |
| 0:39.5 | the pain that we've gone through on our episode when we did online shopping |
| 0:45.1 | cards and accepting money online and the Snip Card is the perfect solution |
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| 0:53.8 | So if you're building a website in react, you don't necessarily have to create an entire |
| 0:59.1 | serverless backend or any sort of express backend to handle your checkout. This is a service that will do it all for you |
| 1:04.4 | and it'll integrate directly into it. |
| 1:06.4 | We'll talk a little bit more about them. |
| 1:08.0 | Also, DevLifts, we've talked about them on our fitness show, |
| 1:10.6 | but if you're hearing this for the first time, Devlist is a, they create |
| 1:14.8 | personal training plans specifically for developers. So if you're looking to get in |
| 1:18.9 | shape for the new year, definitely time to chat with Dev Listing and get that personal training plan up into running. |
| 1:27.2 | So welcome, welcome. |
| 1:28.5 | How are you doing today, Scott? |
| 1:29.7 | Hey, I'm doing great. |
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