https://forgeover.com/tags/admitting-failure/ Recent content in Admitting Failure on Forgeover Hugo en-us Thu, 26 Mar 2020 13:35:45 +0000 https://forgeover.com/articles/business/admitting-failure/ Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:10:29 +0000 https://forgeover.com/articles/business/admitting-failure/ <p>I put this Title in my drafts folder on June 12th. Its been sitting there taunting me ever since. Then on Wednesday I attended a session at OSCON titled &ldquo;<a href="http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/detail/7461">Programmer Insecurity &amp; The Genius Myth</a>&rdquo;. Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick talked to us about how our fear of looking like an idiot or not being taken seriously, or hubris, prevents us from admitting failure.</p> <p>The following are my thoughts on this topic, which have recently been influenced and enhanced by Ben and Brian.</p>