Building Data

Infrastructure, Trust, Appreciation and Decisions

failure (fālˈyər)

n. The condition or fact of not achieving the desired end or ends: the failure of an experiment.

I’ve failed. As the first Data Engineer at a startup in Toronto I had lofty goals, great new-ish/slightly borrowed ideas, and I even had phases so everything would fit nicely into my grand plan. Don’t get me wrong, failure isn’t a bad thing, and I got plenty of shit done. But I knew the problems, I knew the solutions, I had everything grouped in…