This is literally an article espousing the joke "when at first you don't succeed, redefine failure." This is well across the threshold for toxic positivity and

This is literally an article espousing the joke "when at first you don't succeed, redefine failure." This is well across the threshold for toxic positivity and into "participation trophy" territory. We're supposed to distance ourselves from things that don't work. We use harsh language to demonize it for a reason. Here's another concept: shit. Fecal matter is unsanitary. We don't use "positive" words like "nutrient log" or "brown paint" to describe it; we refer to it using the nastiest verbiage imaginable so people don't think to paint with it or eat it-- it's unclean, it's dirty, stay away from it, bury it, leave it behind. We don't celebrate our own shit. It is waste, to be discarded. Can you do analysis on it? Sure. Should you dwell on it? Maybe, if there's blood. Reframing it as anything other than shit leads down a very lonely road. Same with failures. They are a byproduct. They are a neon sign that says "GO A DIFFERENT WAY." It signals "this is shit." It's great that you're still alive enough to learn from your unit test, but it still failed. The expected conditions were not met. There is no "spectrum," you either solved the problem or you didn't-- anything else is a con-artist trying to mask a failure by questioning what success means ("well, I didn't really fail, I'm just reimagining the problem").