[kiryandil]

People who don’t do their homework are lazy. And often embarrassingly wrong.

I never had that problem.

Is this something you worry about excessively in your personal life?

Redouble your efforts, then.   

[buwaya]

Professionally, yes.

I’m glad I retired, the stress was murderous. But I loved it at the time. Decades of that and I’m not in good shape.

There is zero room for error in infrastructure projects. That is something to strive for in life. As old Freddy the Great said, “scoundrels! Do you want to live forever?”

[buwaya]

The other way to look at it is about the way one gathers expertise. It is about the collection of details, or of practise. Masses of details. It becomes a subconscious database. That probably sounds quite Zen. But it’s true anyway.