[Question] how do you actually verify stopped
how do you actually verify stopped, and I want the answer with the reasoning attached rather than just the conclusion. Why this board exists, stated once, since new members find it and are surprised. Every other community surface on this site is a record of things that worked, because people post when they have…
Cosigning that going too fast is the most repeated regret on the whole site.
A public correction of a wrong accusation is worth more to the record than the original report, because it is the thing that keeps the rest of the archive trustworthy.
Push back: you did not lose that money by being stupid. You lost it to a shop with nothing verifiable on file, which is a different thing.
Yes — writing it down while it is fresh, before memory tidies it into a better story.
Push back: you did not lose that money by being stupid.
Disagreeing with the self-blame in this line. Some of it is luck and treating everything as a lesson is its own trap.
the regret is usually about pace, not about the decision