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I love this metaphor:

“The way you explore complex ecosystems is you just try lots and lots and lots of things, and you hope that everybody who fails fails informatively so that you can at least find a skull on a pikestaff near where you're going. “

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Are there any industries where documenting failure is incentivized? I could easily name a whole litany of things I've tried that didn't work (most recently: trying to use AWS security groups as a bad-actor mitigation technique), but when it's time-consuming enough to give a talk or blog about what I've had succeed, I can't imagine doing either about how I've failed.

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