Advice on Failure, Leadership, and Rejection from a Hacking for Defense Alum

Mo Kaiser
7 min readMay 27, 2020
Photo by Ian Schneider on Unsplash

Introduction

Let’s first acknowledge that hacking has negative connotations surrounding it. Society has ingrained us to picture a person with a hoodie over their head sitting in a dark room, surrounded by computers and coding at an ungodly pace. That a hacker is someone who intends to perform malicious acts.

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