Draft of a night walk: the diagnosis of a researcher’s quest for success

I’m coming back from a long nighttime walk with a friend, during which we had several interesting discussions. One of them seemed relevant enough to turn into the short draft you’re reading now. This friend has been training in offensive web security for almost a year. He’s an intelligent and particularly studious person, yet despite that, he’s struggling to find his first vulnerability during his bug bounty sessions, and we were trying to identify the potential reasons behind it.