the lost money question that gets asked weekly, answered properly
the lost money question that gets asked weekly, answered properly. Change my mind, genuinely — I have no stake in being right about this. Chased the scale instead of the measurements for a year and made myself miserable for no additional progress. Went up too fast because the scale had stalled and I was impatient.…
the fridge failure story happens every summer
What would have caught it earliest?
Gently disagree with the self-blame. What you describe is a procedural gap, and the procedure was not written down anywhere for you to follow.
coming back to say you were wrong takes more than being right did
coming back to say you were wrong takes more than being right did
This is why the board exists. Nobody else publishes this part.
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.
a mistake described in detail is worth more than a success described vaguely
That was a hold rather than a loss, and it resolved. Updating rather than deleting.
Fridge died in a heatwave and I lost three months of material. There was no clever lesson; I just had not thought about it.
Correcting myself: 20 weeks, not the figure I wrote. The story is the same and I had rounded it in my favour.
What would you do differently, specifically?