How I Learned to Love Failure

Jay Allen
5 min readMay 30, 2022

Success isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

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One day in the bathroom at work, my friend asked, “What the hell are you doing here?”

It was early in my tech career. I had scored a job working for a small online gaming startup. This was right at the start of Web 2.0 when companies would hire practically anybody.

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