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100% agree. I once blocked all internet traffic whilst working remotely because the secpol editor reordered a list in a way I wasn't expecting (two lessons learned - don't do hard things when off sick and pay attention to what you actually click rather than what you think you clicked)

This. This is the thing I need to learn how to communicate (read: monetize) 😂

We all took down the domain at some point. It taught us and improved things for folks that came later.

I feel like it's a sysadmin rite of passage to spend a weekend rebuilding AD from scratch after oopsie-ing it.

A principle engineer can release a vulnerability that causes all of fortune 500 to be emergency patching for weeks. I'm thinking of the Snowflake vulnerabilities.

That’s the nature of measurable, performance based businesses. Hedge fund traders who blow up, who lose a spectacular amount of money, almost always get another shot. It’s because A) there’s a reason the last guy trusted them to make a mistake that large B) top performers learn from the mistakes

Gaps in your resume are mistakes you never want people to know about, because you might make them again?

@lkngrrr.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy

Truncate cascade, what? No, no cascade, why would that be the default?! Cancel! 😱

A former colleague and mentor of mine said: "All engineers make mistakes, good engineers only make a mistake once, great engineers learn from everyone else's mistakes."