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		foobarqux on March 8, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Think Failures are hardly ever analyzed. Successes are usually mis-analyzed using some false narrative with bad decisions and elements of luck entirely discounted.

danielharan on March 10, 2014 [–]

That is not at all what I've seen from various founders in my network. Those who fail spend far more time analyzing what happened.

foobarqux on March 10, 2014 | [–]

I was talking about outsiders.

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