how much of what we believe about what went wrong actually comes from failure threads
Trying to get a straight answer on this: how much of what we believe about what went wrong actually comes from failure threads. Accused the wrong party publicly and it was my storage. Correcting it here was the most uncomfortable post I have made and the right one. Fridge died in a heatwave and I lost three months of…
Most of what gets posted here is procedural rather than dramatic: a step skipped, a document not requested, a temperature not considered, a pace chosen out of impatience.
Most of what gets posted here is procedural rather than dramatic: a step skipped, a document not requested, a temperature not considered, a pace chose
Disagreeing with the self-blame in this line. Some of it is luck and treating everything as a lesson is its own trap.
Small correction — the shop in that story has no independent testing on file at all, which is different from having a bad record.
Same. The thing that went wrong for me was procedural and boring and it cost me a lot.
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.