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Fuckup Nights – Series of events where stories of failure are shared
- bolster 4y agoYeah... I'll pass on paying $480/year to fuckup my own city; we've been doing it for free for years.
- badcppdev 4y agoBut there are: "*Payment options available" :-D
- robbie-c 4y agoMinor point, but I looked at the map to see if my city (London) was there, saw a pin around York, and moused over it to see that it was in-fact London.
- twawaaay 4y agoOh, I have a lot of fun stories from the trenches. Too bad nothing near me. Would love to do this remotely.
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- joshu 4y agoi used to run a session at foo camp called “that sucked” back in the day. people would share stories, and i’d try to do a root cause analysis and tally all the problems. often the root cause leaders were “databases”, “unicode” and “that guy” a quick article i wrote at the time: http://joshua.schachter.org/2006/08/that-sucked http://joshua.schachter.org/2006/08/that-sucked and here’s someone else’s recollection of one, starring PG. https://scottberkun.com/2006/report-from-foo-camp-06-foocamp06/ https://scottberkun.com/2006/report-from-foo-camp-06-foocamp...
- flippy_flops 4y agoI want this as a social media platform - in the same vein as BeReal
- calt 4y agoOof. That full page carousel is HARSH. Having a time limit to read the page that I'm on? No thanks.
- britneybitch 4y agoAt least it's on-brand.
- 0898 4y agoLooks like a great series. The sweary branding is an interesting choice. I run a few email newsletters for different professional audiences, and I’ve been surprised how many people don’t like swear words in business content. People have reacted negatively when we include any strong “effing and jeffing”, as my grandmother used to put it. As I get older (I’m 40) it certainly makes me cringe a bit. I wonder what the pros and cons are of a sweary brand.
- RajT88 4y agoI, probably like a lot of people, will curse under my breath when figuring out a problem, or coding in general. I try to keep it clean for professional discussions. Definitely customer facing, but still mostly so for internal discussion. Probably a lot of people curse under their breath at work during problem triage. Thus, it comes off to me as being more legitimate being sweary.
- nequo 4y agoSharing failures is going against the grain. Not generally seen as professionally acceptable. Maybe that’s why this particular event series has a swear word in its name. That is going against the grain too.
- distrill 4y agoidk it feels like a boss sitting on a chair backwards. it is such a superficial signal.
- nequo 4y agoIt can easily turn into that. I also don't like it when the CEO of a well-known spacecraft manufacturer does it for a cheap laugh. In the case of Fuckup Nights, to me it feels like it is just inviting friendly banter. To share something that's generally seen as shameful requires us to let our guard down and be less serious about ourselves.
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- Klonoar 4y agoHas this been a thing for years and is just returning, or something? Could swear I went to one of these in Tokyo some years ago. Was fun, I definitely miss these kinds of events.
- mnkv 4y agoThey should add geolocation to the fuckups. That is not where either Montreal or Gatineau are haha
- interestica 4y agoI suspect it's the conflict between where the actual even organizer is, and the "region" they're covering (the 'license' from the site means that there can only be one 'fuckupper' per city).
- PreInternet01 4y agoYes, that map is something else -- apparently, London is now somewhere in the North Sea off Norwich, while Amsterdam has relocated to a suburb of Hamburg. Continuing the weirdness, neither of those locations actually seems to have any events nor any semblance of a 'local team' associated with it. So, impressive dedication to the 'fuckup' theme, or speculative spam? Tune in for next week's episode...
- jimnotgym 4y agoI tried to sign up to the newsletter. I was reading the site in English, but it offered me two(mandatory) choices of email language, Spanish or Espanol!
- ohyoutravel 4y agoI think the “shock factor” of the name can be good branding, but I would guess it eventually limits reach in general.
- cheschire 4y agoThere may be some inherent filtering of the audience intended there. I suspect there's a correlation between someone's inability to deal with the word "fuck" being used in branding with their unlikely acceptance and support of other people's mistakes.
- agloeregrets 4y agoOr more widely, how they would treat an alcohol filed night out of casual chatting about fuckups. Branding might actually help improve the product.
- rngname22 4y agoIf the cost of a more colorful world is alienating some who prefer a beige, padded room, then I think that it's absolutely worth it.
- the-printer 4y agoMust everything be subject to such extremes these days?
- legerdemain 4y agoI wonder how to find a list of all cities where these events are running, not just upcoming ones. There's a distinct lack of live events and tech culture here in the Bay Area. I'm not fucked-up/well-connected enough to organize one of these, but would gladly help with one.
- ranting-moth 4y agoAlone with my crush as a teenager when she wanted to show me her brand new underwear. She did and I said it looked nice and left it at that. I didn't take the hint until 5 years later when she verbally berated me for being daft. I do consider that a significant failure in my life.
- KMag 4y agoIf you're sad about the missed opportunity for sex, console yourself in that it's never as good as your imagination, unless your imagination is pretty poor. (Insert obvious "then you're doing it wrong" retort.) On the other hand, missed opportunities for long-term relationships are tough.