Learned more from watching that old guy tap his brick twice than from eight years of figuring it out solo, which says a lot about how we all pick up bad habits and just roll with them. Honestly the soupy joints by lunch thing hit home, been there way too many times. Guess the real lesson is to watch the quiet old dudes on site more often instead of thinking you already know it all.

Writing it down is the whole trick, no app needed. I've tried a couple free ones and they all want me to tap through six screens just to log one tool change, so I went back to paper. A cheap clipboard and a pen beats any app when your hands are covered in coolant. The chip sound still tells you when something's off, but the notebook tells you what number to go back to.

Burned my shutter finger holding the lens bare once.