If you had to keep all the failures you'd rejected on the anti-books... actually, I thought this was an asinine comment but there might actually be a lesson here. I ain't no fancy big city investin' type, but wouldn't one of the fundamental principles be to find the point where this your portfolio and your anti-portfolio are balanced?
This anti-portfolio is so impressive it seems to suggest a strategy of investing a small amount in all but the stupidest rather than even trying to pick winners
This seems like wishful thinking, though: most of the attempts of media companies to take on "disruptive" technologies end up looking fairly ridiculous.
This is akin to saying that you should not be using libc, on account of there being many newer, more suitable libraries for string manipulation, I/O, and so on.
There's a clear downside to having dependencies on relatively obscure, cutting-edge technologies that may not necessarily work or be available elsewhere. And since build systems usually don't really need to be fancy, as much as they need to work, being conservative in this area usually doesn't hurt.
