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 Fail fast, fail safe, move on. Resilience and investigative rigor, rather than timidity.

In God I trust, everything else must face periodic review. 
 I've noticed that this drives a lot of people nuts because I'll seem really confident that I've made the right choice about something (like Bitcoin, LOL) and then suddenly waver or sound like a skeptic.

I just have this complex mental flowchart for every decision I make, so if someone points out that I forgot a logic gate or an external input three levels up, I'm immediately like, hold up... let's go back and review this from START, again. 🤔  
The algorithm is dead. Long live the algorithm. 
 Not believing your own bullshit / checking yourself or the process is the way!