regret — my 19-week log, condensed into one table
Something I keep coming back to: regret — my 19-week log, condensed into one table. 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. Escalating faster than the schedule allows…
Yes. Buy small first. It is the cheapest lesson on the site and it keeps being learned the expensive way.
Cosigning that going too fast is the most repeated regret on the whole site.
What do you want from posting it — advice, or just to have it on the record?
Went up too fast because the scale had stalled and I was impatient. Got early fullness I did not need and a data point I could not interpret.
buy small first is the lesson that keeps being learned expensively
log it while it is fresh, memory tidies things up