Embracing failure is key to success

Embracing failure is key to success
Becoming a Better Engineer — Part 3
Adrian Hornsby
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Feb 13
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“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill
I deleted a database in production“I am done. It is the end and I will be fired now.”
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Principal System Dev Engineer @ AWS ☁️ I break stuff .. mostly. Opinions here are my own.
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