[Discussion] can we stop arguing about lost money until somebody posts a number
can we stop arguing about lost money until somebody posts a number — that is what I am asking, and I have already read the wiki twice. 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…
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.
Small correction — the shop in that story has no independent testing on file at all, which is different from having a bad record.
stopping for financial reasons is not a personal failure
stopping for financial reasons is not a personal failure
milos_vestergaard is right that it was procedural. The procedure was not written down anywhere for you to follow.
Correction to my own post: it was my storage, not the shipment. Leaving the original up with this attached.
the thing that went wrong is usually procedural, not dramatic