These threads area always fun. I'll give my "eng/arch/social" bad-decision-eigenvectors.
- Deleted /etc on a live cluster, due to interpolation in a CMS script which tried to pretend that solaris wasn't a thing.
- Overengineered _everything_ as opposed to recognizing that 90% of the time the needs really demanded something that would just work and people could forget about.
- Let myself identify too much with my work. I made choices in work life balance and in letting myself feel shitty about things out of my control that you can't let bother you if you're going to keep smiling and moving forward.
- Deleted /etc on a live cluster, due to interpolation in a CMS script which tried to pretend that solaris wasn't a thing.
- Overengineered _everything_ as opposed to recognizing that 90% of the time the needs really demanded something that would just work and people could forget about.
- Let myself identify too much with my work. I made choices in work life balance and in letting myself feel shitty about things out of my control that you can't let bother you if you're going to keep smiling and moving forward.