Wisdom

When you're sure it's someone else's problem, it's probably yours

Quote

But that's not what comes out of your mouth because you learn over time that every time you think that, it ends up being your problem.

Episode 272: Is this Y'all? (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:02:55 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

Voice-matched

Summary

When Adam reported No Agenda missing from Index search, Dave's first thought was 'nothing I did, Curry probably screwed it up.' Experience taught him not to say that out loud: every time you think it's someone else's problem, it ends up being yours. So he started with the most likely cause, his own recent schema change.

Not in the audio. Voice matching labeled the first two cues and the last cue of this quote Unknown, and only the middle cue Dave. It's attributed to Dave because the surrounding Dave cues are his first-person account of debugging the Podcast Index search ('my first thought was...', 'the podcast identity layer schema change thing that I've been doing'). Guest episode (Sam Sethi present).