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Discussion on: Embracing Failure: What's Your Most Valuable Lesson as a Developer?

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Rachel Fazio

When I first started design school I remember learning so much about failing fast, it was wild. I remember a specific group project I worked on of making our own typeface where we just would go back to the drawing board everyday and still couldn't make it perfect— it drove me up a wall.

In hindsight, I think this project taught me to let things be imperfect and to move on when it is not serving me! It is difficult sometimes to want to scrap an idea that you feel really happy with, but that is taking the life out of you. I think ultimately moving in a different direction or scrapping a project altogether is inevitable and super important in the iteration process.