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XO Ruby San Diego 2025 - How to Fail by Karl Oscar Weber
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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "XO Ruby San Diego 2025 - How to Fail by Karl Oscar Weber", an episode of Confreaks published January 9, 2026 (44 min, about 6,218 words). It mentions 5 people, works and ideas, including Camping, Y the lucky stiff, Gumroad, Kona, Rook.
What is discussed, and when
- – 5:00: Camping, Y the lucky stiff
- – 25:00: Gumroad
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Who and what is mentioned in this episode?
People
- Y the lucky stiff — Person · 1 mention · first at
I also maintain camping which is a Ruby micro framework made by a brilliant crazy person named Y the lucky stiff.
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- Gumroad — Company · 1 mention · first at
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the the star of Exo Ruby is Jim and I just want I just want to say thank you. So, thank you so much
You know, I was really happy when Jim asked me to to speak today because uh I haven't been back to San Diego since I was born. So So it's good to come home kind of. Um I have lots of no memories, but um uh it it feels good. Yeah. Growing up, we I lived in Utah. I grew up in Utah, but a lot of my family lived in Orange County. So, we'd visit California a lot and just to have that kind of that sea air on you and to feel, you know, the the coldness of the the late night um wind and the smell of the ocean, it just really brings up childhood memories. So, I'm really really happy to be back.
Um, so yeah, so my name is Carl. Uh I have been a programmer designer kind of person for about 15 years and I I've done okay uh but I've also failed a lot and learned some lessons. And so today's talk is to impart the wisdom I have learned the hard way how to fail. Um who did that's me. Um, currently I work for a company that does no Ruby. And the way that they did that, they they decided to hire me was that they saw my resume, how was all over the place and like we need someone just like you, you know, that has a lot of experience in a lot of different things. I've done Swift, I've done Ruby, I've done Python, I've done PHP, I've done the front end, I've done React, I've done the back end, you know, um, and I have learned a lot of different languages to try to pull things together and figure it out. And so I've tried a lot of things and Ruby is my favorite language. And so I'm always going to be back to Ruby and
building things in Ruby. So yeah. Um, I already did that part. Sorry. I'm Carl. My friends call me cow. You can call me whatever you want, but if you're my enemy, you can't call me anything. Uh, about last year, I started a small studio uh, e extemporane extemporaneously called Capsule Graphics. It's was a subscription studio. that means that you pay a a solid flat rate and you kind of own me for a large portion of my time to do whatever you want. And it sort of failed because it it turns out you don't have unlimited time to deliver, you know, work for people. Uh but it it sounded like a good idea at the time.
I also maintain camping which is a Ruby micro framework made by a brilliant crazy person named Y the lucky stiff. Who here knows who Y is? See OG's right here. There we go. Yeah. Yeah. Why? Why is fantastic. Um, but
right. Heck, I wouldn't be doing Ruby without wise influence. Um, a lot of what I did to learn Ruby was to try to get Camping to work again. And if you have ever seen Campy's camping's core file, it's 5 kilobytes that looks obuscated, but it's not. It's just really compact Ruby and uh you can learn a lot from going through that. I also started a a newsletter called spam which ironically I have not sent a single issue out. So this is safe to subscribe to.
It's pretty it's it's it's pretty f I'm serious. But it's also a joke which makes it even better. Um but yeah, so subscribe to to get some spam. It's it's a newsletter that will come eventually. Uh you can go to you can subscribe at my website at kw.fm or somewhere I don't know anywhere else. Uh I'm also working on a small project called Kona which is a replacement for JavaScript on the web. It's a it's a new programming language and in order to work on that I've learned like C and Rust and I don't know Zigg and all sorts of weird stuff. Um and I settled on writing it in web assembly itself.
But to do that I I'm writing another language called Rook so I can write it. It's really ridiculous. So I'm also working on that. And this gets us to our first slide. How to fail. The very first thing you do is you run out of money. Who here has run out of money before?
Lots of times. Um, there's some tricks to when you run out of money. If you buy IKEA furniture, uh, the policy used to be that if you had the receipt, even if you built it, you could bring it back and get a full refund with no questions asked. And it could just be like a recite, you know, like a savings account. But more generally, when you try to like run any sort of business or any sort of endeavor, you you are an endeavor yourself. You need money to live. You need money to do things. And a good way to kind of fail is to run out of it. Uh there are strategies to not run out of money. Uh I know a few of those. One of them is to like spend less, I think. Um but more of it is to make more of it.
So it's important to charge the right price for money or sorry for your time. We're not banks. We're not selling money. Um so yeah, how to fail run out of money. This can also be applied to like other creative endeavors. Open source open source itself is kind of built on this idea where you kind of contribute your time for free and if there's not enough motivation or time or you know outside money to keep you running for you to put in those contributions you can't continue. It's kind of like a fire that dies because you can't throw any more fuel on the thing. See I run out of money.
Another way to to fail is to run out of time. This is kind of related to the first one. Uh here who here has heard of the space-time continuum. Everyone Well, that's fantastic. Um so this time and money are kind of related in that same kind of way as space and time is that if you have more time, you can potentially get more money or more runway. If you need to deliver a project and you have enough time to do it, then you can put in your efforts to deliver that project. But if you don't have enough time, it doesn't matter when the deadline is, you just can't do it. You can't put in enough units of labor to finish something.
So yeah, you can run out of time. Lie to yourself is a way to fail. Who here thinks they're a good person? I hope everyone raises their hand. Are you sure? Are you trying your best? Who here thinks they're trying their best? Are you sure? I think the biggest uh failure of people is to recognize when they do have their own weaknesses. What we want to do is kind of protect our own ego. And our ego is kind of like our sense of self. I'm doing my best. I'm trying my hardest. You know, I'm putting in the efforts I should be putting in. People should recognize it. But it's also equally probably more important for you to ask, what if I'm not doing my best? What can I do better? What is what is the objective truth of what's happening?
Keeping yourself safe is important, your sense of self, but it's also important to be honest with yourself because you cannot improve or solve anything or or resolve your weaknesses if you can't see them. So, yeah, a good way to fail is to lie to yourself. Um, this one's a really, really big one. One way to fail is to spend tomorrow. kind of like counting your chickens before you hatch or borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, which is a reference I don't completely understand. Um, but yeah, let's say you have you have some sort of contracts or some sort of invoices coming in, but you already have that money allocated for something else. You're spending tomorrow on that. It's not coming from some bank of security or safety. It's going it's it's coming from the future. Something you've already counted on. You can spend time that same way. You can be like, well, you know, I'll have time next week
or the week after to help you with this. It'll make like take two or three hours maybe. But what if it takes two or three days? You've already spent the time and now you've got to like kick something else down the road or say sorry to somebody else because you've already spent the time. So spending tomorrow is about a failure to plan, failure to understand the true cost of what it will take to accomplish something and to allocate that inappropriately. Who here's seen this term fake it till you make it? I I want to ask everyone who here thinks they know what it means.
Nick, what do you think? What do you think? It means you don't know what you're doing. Just keep going.
Okay. You don't know what you're doing, but keep going. Anyone else? Rich, what you're doing, but you make a promise to yourself that you will eventually learn in a hurry. Nico,
that makes me You already love me. I love you, too. I I don't know if you all know, Nico is literally my son. So, choose second.
Nico is right. That is the right definition of this. The wrong definition is to say, "I can do it." when you can't. And being like, "I'll try my best." when you don't have the capacity or the time to gain the skills to finish something uh in the time that you've, you know, committed to. So, you can you can grow your skills and and you can improve, but you have a limit to that. And so you can't just go beyond it just because you have a good feeling about something. You need to know what your limits are and what your capacity to grow is.
But don't try to like interpret fake it till you make it to mean like you know just to say yes. Oh, I'll figure it out. I mean like can't take too much of a stretch you'll pull a muscle or break it. You you know what I mean? Who here understands this right? So yeah, uh do what's do what's possible within your capacity and know what your capacity to learn to grow is. Spread yourself too thin. Um so I have done mobile apps, backend apps, front end apps, full stack apps. I've done design work, graphic design work. I have done everything but social media.
Well, I mean, I do it personally, but who knows if I'm even doing that the right way. Um, but yeah, so when I sold my business, well, my services last year and in in in a lot of these times, I used to sell my services as I can do anything on the web and technically I can, but can I really do everything at the same time or with the same skill level? No. And so one way to kind of fail at anything is to commit to too many different areas that you can't specialize in. Because if you can't have something that's a unique special skill that you can apply, then you can't move quickly enough to be, you know, to be good at it, to be able to be effective.
do it tomorrow. Who here has heard the the phrase uh don't leave till tomorrow what you can do today. You heard that one.
You do it all today. Oh, that's uh that's irresponsible. Um uh I think that one of the most important things if you do want to succeed in something is to get deposits of work in as early as you can because you know we're all most of us here are programmers right we all we do programming work everyone's shaking their head yes someone's shaking their head no never mind um and so when we have these big projects we need to break them down into smaller pieces We needed to try to make deposits or at least I tried to make deposits earlier rather than later into completing these smaller pieces. But if you delay it for any reason, you start pushing off the the work of making those deposits and those efforts to complete something. If you do it tomorrow, tomorrow brings a different environment of of of problems and issues and obstacles. You don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. You know, you know
what you have today, but not tomorrow. So, tomorrow you might have to like you might have lost an entire days of work because something random happens. I don't know. Maybe you're driving to work and your car's, you know, oil gauge goes to zero and you you pull over and you go to the auto zone and they're like, "You you you blew a piston out. You got to go home." And you know, that's that's your whole day. That was three weeks ago for me. So, you don't even know what's going to happen. So, don't wait till tomorrow.
That's also a good advice. Don't have clients. Well, yeah. Um, this can apply to a lot of things, not just freelancing. Uh, don't have clients. How do you get clients? Who here knows how to get clients? That's like I don't even know how to get clients. Well, I kind of do, but we we'll say who here knows how to get clients. No one has right you just like
networking is your general right. So if you don't have any clients it's because you're not doing anything to get the clients. Um any endeavor requires some sort of process where you cultivate which means there's awareness or seeding and then there is you know watering the plants or being present and then you exercise yourself and put more effort into it and then eventually someone's like yeah I'll pay for this you know I'll do it but if you don't do any of that stuff in the beginning you can't get anything at the end. So, so yeah, you got to figure that out.
Don't have a market. Who here understands what this means? Rich. You're building something cool, but nobody else thinks it's cool. Anko,
start. That might make Yes. Start a barbecue restaurant in demographically vegan community. I think both of those are good ideas for what I'm trying to get across. A market is not just what you're selling. It's who's buying and who else is selling. And a market doesn't develop overnight. It doesn't develop because you show up. And it doesn't happen because you feel like someone wants this. Markets exist and grow naturally and they change. And so if you don't have a market or you don't know what that market is, then you can't reliably sell services or or yourself or do anything uh that is positive to find those clients or find that work because you don't even know exactly where that work's coming from.
Number 10, don't focus. Um, if you need to get one thing done today, but you do all the other things, then you didn't do what you were supposed to do. Or let's say you want to offer services for front end and back end and iOS work and design work, but what are you really good at? If someone's trying to think, hey, what how can this person help me the best that only they can help me with? or if you're at your job and they're like, "What can I rely on Carl to do that nobody else on my team can do?" If someone doesn't know what that is, that's a lack of focus.
And you know, it's a recipe for failure. I think the only way to solve that is to choose something. Choose a core skill that you can do better than other people and to develop it and cultivate it so you can offer something that others can you know find valuable. I think this is related to number nine. Uh be in the wrong market. Um, so markets are interesting things because they grow and they shrink based on on a lot of things that have nothing to do with you, a lot of factors. And being in the wrong market means you can't sell your skills or find clients in the way that you want to sell them. A lot of what happens is kind of dictated by what people are already buying and what people are already selling. And then the greater like community around that market. For example, like what region is it in? What currency is it in? What language is it in? What kind of things are people selling in, you know, in this market or
around this market. Being in the wrong market means that you are selling your services to people who don't want it or you're trying to connect with people that aren't interested. But maybe if you shift and learn where people are at that want what you're selling, maybe, you know, you could find the right market. Yeah, maybe we should talk about markets and marketing a little bit more. So, um, yeah. Uh so markets grow naturally and marketing is the way for you to position yourself towards other people. It means that you present yourself in a certain way so that people see you in some way and they think this person is offering this kind of service at this price.
It's important to kind of understand that if you don't do those actions to set yourself up in a certain way to take a stand, then you aren't having it. You don't have any stand. You're not actually in that market. The size of a market determines what's possible. Um so
so you may think you want to grow your business a certain degree. You know, you want, you know, you want to make a million dollars a year or something, but what if there just isn't enough work for a million dollars a year? Or what if there aren't enough clients in the pool for people to be sold on that? That's not up to you. That's something you discover as you try to sell your services or or find out things in the market and that stuff's just not determined by you. I'll give you an example. Um, who here has heard of Gumroad?
Yeah, everyone here, right? So, what what does Gumroad offer? It's just marketplace, right? And what you do is you you have a little store. you can sell downloads and some videos. When Gumroad started, it had startup money, which means it grew really fast, but the clients weren't there, so they had to fire everybody. Um, and so it was a kind of like a skeleton crew for a while, but revenue continued to grow steadily over, you know, over a decade. Eventually they were profitable enough to hire a lot more people and to grow and to do a lot of different things. But all of that growth wasn't determined by their marketing or you know their their actions. The market itself determined what was possible. And because that grew then the possibility for them to take part of the market or to service it grew with it.
Does that make sense? This is one's important. You choose what market you're in. And you can make choices consciously or unconsciously. So every action you take or every action you don't take determines how people perceive you and how they see like what your role is and and how you operate within a per a particular market. And so if you're cognizant or aware of what it takes to be in one market or another or to be presented in one way or another, it means you can choose where to be. Now, not taking any action or taking like light actions means that you are kind of like giving up that responsibility like you're not really sure what to do, but you can choose what market you're in by understanding how to present in a certain way so that people can perceive you in that market.
So the last thing is you can't create a market. No matter how you try or hope to make customers out of people, out of something you think is really cool or out of a way of selling something that's really great. You can't you can't make it. It has to naturally grow out of what people are already interested in. It's kind of like an extension of what already exists and it grows slowly. So, so yeah, grow out of an existing market. Don't try to create a new market. Branding is not marketing. Who here thinks a logo is your brand?
Anybody? Who here knows what a logo is? Everybody. When you think of branding, what do you think of? Does anyone think of the logo? logo is a part of it.
Logo is a part of it, but it's the wider story about who you are. It's the wider story. Yeah, that's a good that's a good way to describe it. Anyone else has a definition? restaurant.
Right. Right. Right. Exactly. And so, so there's like three, there's three things kind of connected to what Vanessa and Nico said. The first is the brand is what people think about you when you're not around, their perception and feelings about you. That's your brand. That means that like let's say I have a personal brand. You know how many people are in here? There's like 22, 23, 24 people. I've got 25 brands right here in this room. The way that everyone here thinks about me is a little bit different. and the way you know I guess if I behave myself and and I'm funny then you know I improve my brand a little bit I guess uh but branding is the act of creating collateral so that people can kind of associate uh your company or yourself or whatever with you know you in a certain way. It's like the logo or the the the font or the color but none of that is marketing.
Marketing is the actions you take to be known in a certain market so that people know what you can do, how you can do it, how you can help in an organ. Let's say you all work full-time. I work full-time now. You know, I'm not doing a lot of branding um for myself. Uh but my marketing is kind of like showing people this is what I can do and delivering on these these promises and making sure people kind of understand that I am reliable in these sense. That's my marketing. It's kind of like letting people know what it can do.
So marketing is it's not branding. It's continued demonstration and uh advocation uh to show people what you can do. All right.
It's also easy not to do your taxes if you didn't really make any money, you know. So, this is kind of like a foot gun, but for someone like me, it's less of a foot gun than it seems. Um, but yeah, one way to fail is not to do your taxes, to get behind and then have future revenues or a large portion of it caught up in paying back taxes. And taxes doesn't just have to be for the government. It can be on in things that you need to improve and pay for and you haven't done and you know it becomes a burden. Could be debts.
One way to fail is to not mind the details and forget to pay your taxes. Anyways, don't do that. Does everyone promise not to do this? Okay, good. Convince yourself that you're special. Who here thinks they're special? You are kind of right. Everyone is unique on Earth and they're all special and there's only one of you. But you're also a person and there are 8 billion people. So someone has done something similar to what you have done. And a great way to fail is to think that your circumstances are not shared by anybody. that nobody can help you with them or that you can't learn anything from others.
Being or convincing yourself you're special means that only you can solve your problems and only you can perceive them. But really the world is so big and there's so many opportunities to learn and to grow and to improve that you can you can gr you can gain value from everybody. So yeah, you're not special. But you are, but you're not. And you're not special in a good way. Because you're not special, you can learn from others right?
You can learn from me. Imagine I was a car. like not like a transformer, but um a vehicle that has been used and abused and has dings and and and car accidents and you know, you can just you can see it and you can be like, don't do what that driver did and you don't have to have the same problem with your vehicle. So, I hope that uh it's mildly helpful. um wait until the night before to write, practice and prepare a talk. This is about procrastination, but it really works specially in this this because I really know this topic of how to fail.
So, I mean, I had the skills prepare very quickly. It's also funnier to prepare this the night before. Um, you can do that sometimes. Who here has a skill that they're they know they're better at than anyone else on their team? What's your skill?
I know a lot. You know a lot of languages. Okay. Anybody else has anything they're uniquely good at? I think that you're y'all taking the you're not special thing a little too far.
Driving backwards. Jim drives backwards. He used to be a stock car driver and I was in his car yesterday night and we had to get to like a Target before clothes or something to buy buy some stuff and I felt it. He's got that skill. Um if I want to drive with somebody and I know I'll get there fast and safe, I'm going to drive with Jim. So yeah, so if he has to in a crunch drive somewhere really quick, he can do it because he has a unique depth of skill in something that other people don't have. So sometimes you could procrastinate because you have an ability to deliver really quickly. But should you do it?
No. So this is about procra procrastination. uh but you can do it that at some times if you have really depth and skill in something. Uh but no amount of skill can buy a second of time. So time is the great limiter to everything we do. No matter how good you are at something, you still need to spend the time in order to deliver based on that skill. All right. Number 16. How to fail? Don't deliver. Eventually, you have to finish your project and send it to your client. You have to get it done. But if you are just procrastinating or pushing it off or if you don't have enough time to finish something, you can't deliver. If you can't deliver, you can't get paid.
If you can't get paid, you run out of money. If you run out of money, you run out of time. And if you run out of time, you're dead. So [snorts and clears throat] uh a great way to succeed is to deliver and to know what you can deliver to understand how that works. Every person is kind of unique but we're also kind of the same and we can learn these kind of these skills of how to make move things along and and get better. So so deliver. Okay. Number 17 change direction. Who here has thought like what I'm doing is wrong. I should pivot.
A lot of people like more than half. Right. Right. I've done that multiple times. Uh changing direction too many times means that you can't really get depth in a certain area and that means that you can't gain the special skills. It only takes it only takes time to to build. Another thing is if you stick with what's not working, that's a good way to fail too. Be ready to pivot and to change and to adjust what you're doing so that you can get to a state in which you're working and things are are succeeding. Um, another way to fail is to change direction again after you've decided to be to to stick to one thing.
Um, number 20, don't have clients. Did I repeat this one? It's worth repeating. If you depend on clients or some sort of input of people work, you know, to get work and you don't have any, you're going to fail. And the only way to fix that is to figure out how to get clients. Don't communicate. This applies to literally everything we do. If we have PR or an MR, depending on if you're using GitLab, um they call them merge requests. So weird. Um if you don't properly communicate with your clients, if you're working in a team, your clients are your managers and the people that are using your code and understand what their needs are and if they're being met. then you will not know if you're actually delivering and fulfilling what they need.
All right, let's say this they they they like what you do. Let's say you're doing a design. Uh Sanjay, you you did design work right?
That's one of the reasons I like you. Um did you verify? Oh, I'm going to verify. Um, but let's say you you you get some design work done. You give it to the client and you're like, "Do you like it?" And they're like, "Yeah, sure." You know, nice. But they didn't communicate that very well. You didn't verify that they really liked it. Or let's say you write some code, but you don't write tests. Who here has not written tests for code before?
question. I've written code that I didn't test before, but I have written irony. I love it. Um, so yeah, so if you don't verify, then there's no way to ensure that you're writing the right tests or I'm sorry, that you're delivering what the people are actually asking for. So you always verify your work. Don't have a contract. Contracts don't really matter if people are dishonest, but they do help to establish behavior and establish what ought to happen between people. Are we are we okay on time? Okay. You just came over here and I was like, I know how you drive. So, I was like, he's ready to go roll. So, um, contracts also don't matter if the client's not happy.
Sometimes you have to do things that are outside of the bounds of what you've agreed to so that somebody is happy with the work that you've done. That's unavoidable in many instances unless you have really well scoped work and the client is super chill. Um, and that actually happens a lot if you you work with clients that make pay more money or like a big company. If you're working full-time somewhere, you know, they it's it's not as important because you have a lot more time to invest. But if they're not happy and it's a tighter budget, then the problems are going to be bigger.
Okay. Don't sleep. This is a great way to fail. If you think that you're going to stay up late and work and get something done good, you're wrong because now you sabotaged tomorrow. The best way to improve your performance is to get enough sleep. And the best way to sabotage your performance is to not get in. So, if you'd like to fail, don't sleep. Um, if you don't eat well, you also will not do well. This is a great way to fail. Let's let's skip. It's too funny. Uh don't have principles. So if you don't have some sort of guiding methodology like I'm going to do the best work I can for every project or I'm going to do, you know, I'm going to deliver things on time or I'm not going to work with these kind of clients or I am going to work with those kind of clients. If you don't have any of those principles, then your your performance and and your values will move with the wind. You will not be rooted anywhere. And whoever has
power will be able to tell you what is right and what is wrong. Another way to fail is not to compromise. Sometimes you have to make choices that you're not comfortable with to survive. The number one thing you got to do is to survive and everything else follows that. Because if you don't survive, if you run out of time and you run out of money, then you can't make any choices about what you should or shouldn't do. You run out of you run out of everything, all all resources that are necessary. Um, another way to fail is to compromise on things you shouldn't.
And that is only up to you to determine what you can and can compromise on. If there is something that will negatively impact you or goes too far against your moral code, then it is not right for you to compromise on that. Number 29. Uh be unteable. Who here likes to learn? So, everybody, even you. Um, but how often is the teacher of a lesson somebody you don't like or that you don't approve of? It happens. It happens pretty often. Sometimes a lesson comes from a failure or from, you know, a weakness. You need to be able to take every advantage you can get from anybody.
Even if they're their enemies or they hate you. If you can honestly learn something, then you've got to take that. A great way to fail is to be unteachable. Number 30, keep doing what's not working. If you are committed to something, I don't know, like running a running a studio agency that does everything for fixed price, but you're not making enough money to like survive. If you keep doing that, you will keep failing. You have to recognize what works and what doesn't and be willing to adapt and change so that you can get to a state where you can survive and to grow again.
Um so what so why give this talk? Well, I believe that we are all not special in a special way and that I have failed in non-unique ways that I'd like to share that I hopefully would help to impute some of the ways that you you can avoid failing. I mean, just keep going and survival is probably the best thing you can do to to to win and to succeed is to just not die. So, don't do those things. Be skeptical of advice you get, but not cynical. Trust but verify, maybe. And what if you're not doing your best? who thinks sometimes they're not doing their best.
Don't give up. Don't worry. You only have one life and nobody's going to care about you more than you care about yourself. Every moment's precious and you have to be able to learn from every mistake. Every loss is a lesson. It's expensive. Every weakness is an opportunity to improve. Failures are expensive lessons and pay that cost once. Don't learn the same lesson twice. So, what do you do? Oh, thank you. You say thank you. That's what you do. Does anybody have any questions?
What about Second Life? Second Life. We can get into existentialism or religion or are you talking about the online?
Yeah. Okay. Any other questions? All right, round of applause for Carl.
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