I was using surgery as an example for my daughters of the imortance of checklists and procedure when doing routine tasks, especially those you think you know well enough to space out during.
I personally once irretrievably deleted 50,000 critical data records during a routine deduplication because I broke two of my own rules of always viewing a set of records based on selection criteria before deleting based that criteria, and of course, running a point-in time backup before a deduplication… that was 3 months of my life, and reputation I’ll never get back…
I also think this has to do with being exhausted and in the final stretch of a long task and letting your form slack. I always keep in mind my cross country coach telling me that when you’re tired and in the last half mile, that’s when it’s most important to keep your form
