I disagree that this is justification of failure. If anything, it’s the opposite.
We failed in our goal. We also learned and developed things of real value while pursuing that goal.
This is salvaging what can be salvaged to make headway in an adjacent goal. That said...
> Your definition of success changes as time goes on as you get further into a project that's groundbreaking.
Sometimes the goal is, itself, a failure. It was born of not fully understanding the problem at hand. When the goal is stupid, but that is only discoverable by pursing that goal (ie “intent”), then redefining success is the right thing to do.
Simply by admitting this, you've already contradicted the person I was responding to.
His entire scribe is "what is failure? have we really failed? no" instead of "yeah we failed, but we can learn from it"
Failure is fine. Failure is expected. Failure is the best way to learn an iterate.
But then don't say "well we always got what we wanted out of it anyway, which was to learn" when your goal was "to build the ultimate fighter jet at this budget in this timeline"
I didn't get the same thing out of the comment you were responding to...but I otherwise agree with you entirely:
> Failure is fine. Failure is expected. Failure is the best way to learn an iterate.
and
> don't say "well we always got what we wanted out of it anyway, which was to learn" when your goal was "to build the ultimate fighter jet at this budget in this timeline"
> I didn't get the same thing out of the comment you were responding to
This is my fault, as I was mostly paraphrasing what he said in other comments. So that's just lazy commenting on my part, and probably I deserve downvotes for it.
We failed in our goal. We also learned and developed things of real value while pursuing that goal.
This is salvaging what can be salvaged to make headway in an adjacent goal. That said...
> Your definition of success changes as time goes on as you get further into a project that's groundbreaking.
Sometimes the goal is, itself, a failure. It was born of not fully understanding the problem at hand. When the goal is stupid, but that is only discoverable by pursing that goal (ie “intent”), then redefining success is the right thing to do.