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Personal blog · planningforfailure.com · on HN as tcharroncareerbusiness

Tumblr is a personal blog at planningforfailure.com about career and business. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.

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19mentions?
4HN people?
2010–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2010

Because success is too scary

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tcharron · 21 karma · member since 2012

Agile Coach and Improvisor in Toronto. http://www.planningforfailure.com

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What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Planning for Failure - Greyhound Knows How to Fail as a story · 120 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted The Problem with Working Overtime as a story · 7 points

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  3. Submitted What the Celebrities on The Apprentice Could Learn from Being Agile as a story · 3 points

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  4. Submitted Lean Startup Machine is Emotionally Challenging as a story · 2 points

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  5. Submitted Agile Tools Won’t Solve Your Problem Part 1 as a story · 2 points

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  6. Submitted Are We Human or Are We Resources? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted On Improv, Agile, and Fear at Agile Coach Camp Canada 2010 as a story · 2 points

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  8. Submitted In Defense of Scrum Purists as a story · 2 points

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  9. Submitted The Difference Between Planning for Success and Planning for Failure as a story · 2 points

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  10. Submitted Planning for Failure - You Get the Reputation You Deserve as a story · 2 points

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  11. Submitted Udemy Takes More From Instructors, Censors Critics as a story · 1 points

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  12. Submitted Why Yahoo Might Be Right to End Work From Home as a story · 1 points

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  13. Submitted Agile Tools Won’t Solve Your Problem Part 2 as a story · 1 points

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  14. Submitted Following Your Fear as a story · 1 points

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  15. Submitted No One Told the Customer as a story · 1 points

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  16. Submitted What Would It Take? as a story · 1 points

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  17. Submitted The Importance of Beginnings as a story · 1 points

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  18. Submitted Planning for Failure - Discovering Your Core Values as a story · 1 points

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  19. Submitted Celebrity Apprentice could use some lessons from Agile as a story · 1 points

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