{"id":8,"date":"2014-01-04T12:48:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T12:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/fran-on-failure\/"},"modified":"2014-01-04T12:48:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T12:48:10","slug":"fran-on-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/fran-on-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Fran on Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VSA_jXKi56w\" title \"Fran on Failure\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/VSA_jXKi56w\/default.jpg\" alt=\"Fran video\" class=\"illustration\">This<\/a> is the best advice for anyone hoping to learn about&#8230;well&#8230;anything: get used to failure, because failure is part of the process.<br \/>\nAt a previous job, one of my friends used to make a point of asking interviewees for new positions what was the worst disaster they&#8217;d ever caused, and what they did about it. It&#8217;s a brilliant question because it tends to paint a picture of the candidate in a real life high-pressure situation. Anyone working in a technical field who hasn&#8217;t caused some sort of disaster or other has either not been given the controls or is unaware of the impact of their actions. How would they actually cope with fixing a disaster &#8211; regardless of whether it was their fault or not?<br \/>\nObviously there is the finite possibility that they are indeed perfect and infallible, but this is so unlikely that it&#8217;s not worth considering &#8211; and anyway, would you really want to work with someone like that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the best advice for anyone hoping to learn about&#8230;well&#8230;anything: get used to failure, because failure is part of the process. At a previous job, one of my friends used to make a point of asking interviewees for new positions what was the worst disaster they&#8217;d ever caused, and what they did about it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}