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This. You are only human. The business has a choice; drop work from the queue or increase the worker count (or scale back expectations for work that cannot be parallelized; obligatory Mythical Man Month reference).

If you enable a system to operate successfully to great detriment of its components, it’s still operating and no action will be taken. Failure is a resourcing or scheduling problem, not an individual failing. Failure is a symptom of system defects(s) requiring system improvement.

Great post. Stay healthy.



yup, philosophy for life:

Failure is acceptable and if you learn from it even encouraged

There is no point stressing about things you have no control over

You can only do what you can only do, if you can't do it then find someone that can.


"This too shall pass" we would tell each other. You're not getting paid to stress and age like [some animal that ages quickly].

My favorite battle cry of "Fail fast" was from this Microsoft head of something engineering behind Windows Vista.

And how.


Mayflies can survive in their immature form for years but only live for 1-2 days as adults: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfly




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