anyone else notice failure kicking in around week 21
Six-word version is the title — anyone else notice failure kicking in around week 21 — and the rest is context.
Told everybody, then stopped, then had to tell everybody that too. That was harder than any of the rest of it.
Ignored something for four days that I should have asked about on day one. That is the only genuine regret in my whole run.
Not medical advice, obviously, and nothing here is approved for human use. One person with a spreadsheet.
best — the order this archive was captured in
A public correction of a wrong accusation is worth more to the record than the original report, because it is the thing that keeps the rest of the archive trustworthy.
Agreed. The failures are the part that is missing from every other board, which is why this one matters.
going up too fast is the most repeated regret on this board
a mistake described in detail is worth more than a success described vaguely
Left up. It is honest, it is specific, and somebody at that exact point will read it.
somebody will read this at the point you were at, and it will help
Chased the scale instead of the measurements for a year and made myself miserable for no additional progress.
Not convinced that was avoidable. Some of this is genuinely bad luck and treating everything as a lesson is its own trap.
What would you do differently, specifically?
Correcting myself: 4 weeks, not the figure I wrote. The story is the same and I had rounded it in my favour.
buy small first is the lesson that keeps being learned expensively
money lost to a shop with nothing on file is the recurring story
Escalating faster than the schedule allows is the most frequently described regret on the site, and the mechanism is straightforward: tolerance is the limiting factor and it does not care about impatience.
Where a supplier has no independent testing on file, that is a statement about the evidence and not about their conduct. Saying it the second way is how this board would stop being useful.
accusing the wrong party and correcting it publicly is the best kind of post here
Contemporaneous notes matter most in exactly the situations where people are least inclined to write them. Memory reorganises a bad fortnight into a tidier story with a clearer villain.
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writing it down is the useful part, not the outcome
Right, and stopping for money reasons is not a failure of anything. It is a budget.
Is this the first time, or a pattern you can see now?
Nothing here is medical advice, and the honest version of most of these posts is that they describe consequences rather than causes.
What do you want from posting it — advice, or just to have it on the record?
Did you write anything down at the time?
Lost money to a shop that had nothing verifiable on file anywhere. Posting so that somebody searching that name finds this.
Did you write anything down at the time?
This is why the board exists. Nobody else publishes this part.
the regret is usually about pace, not about the decision
Small correction — the shop in that story has no independent testing on file at all, which is different from having a bad record.
What would have caught it earliest?
Careful with naming anybody. The board rule holds even here, and especially here.
Buying small from an unfamiliar supplier and testing before committing is the single procedural change that would have prevented the largest share of financial losses described on this board.
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