{"id":2874,"date":"2012-03-19T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/touk.pl\/blog\/?guid=d9a53ed1996911aea5ed9c6d25a454f4"},"modified":"2023-03-22T14:29:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T13:29:59","slug":"beautiful-failures-at-33rd-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/touk.pl\/blog\/2012\/03\/19\/beautiful-failures-at-33rd-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Failures at 33rd Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n 33rd in Krak\u00f3w<\/a>, is rolling baby.Tomorrow, together with Maciek Pr\u00f3chniak, we are giving a talk about failures. There is a problem with failures withing our culture, and by our, I mean central and eastern Europe. In San Fransisco, there are regular meetings, called Mobile Monday, where speakers start by saying how many start ups they have failed, and it\u2019s been seen as a their reference to wisdom. At the very end, they\u2019ve learned a lot from all this failures. And it\u2019s not limited only to San Francisco or Mobile Monday. It\u2019s their culture, every failure gets you smarter. In US it\u2019s OK to fail. Have you heard a story about a Japanese train controller that committed suicide, when two trains in a row have been late because of his mistakes? The Europe may not be that extreme, but it\u2019s still at least inappropriate to admit, that you ever made a mistake. If we never admit, if we never reflect, we never learn. So we are changing the rules for an hour. There is nothing good or bad without a context, and we would like to share the circumstances under which things don\u2019t work. Things like: <\/p>\n