[Elecraft] stupid question - likely ot

[jferg977 at aol.com]

During my late, somewhat unlamented career, I hired architects and 
engineers.  At some point I started asking interviewees what was the 
dumbest thing they ever did in construction and what did they do about 
it.  I wouldn't hire anyone who hadn't done something dumb and in some 
cases I even hired people who hadn't been able to do anything about the 
mistake,  but had some good ideas of what should have been done.  I got 
one really great story out of this practice and some pretty good ones 
and will retell the astonishing one offline if anyone is interested.

BTW, this wasn't my idea,  Clauswitz (politics is war by other means) 
apparently used to do something like this when he was looking for 
generals in the early part of the 19th century.  Sorry, but if you 
haven't ever done anything dumb (or made a mistake to put it more 
charitably) likely you haven't done anything.
Happy New Year to the great people who frequent this reflector.  I take 
elements 1, 2 & 3 on Saturday here in Marathon, FL and hope ot be 
joining you all mid month.

John Ferguson