Working blind" is right. I spent half my career trying to feel that click with the old pliers, only to find out later my hand was just cramping up. My first terminations with the new ratcheting style looked like a toddler did them because I kept flinching, waiting for a click that never came. Took me a solid day to stop fighting the tool and just let it do its job. Felt like an idiot, but the proof was on the light meter.

Honestly, "box-checking robot" is exactly how I felt. Changing my why fixed that for me too.

Honestly, my kitchen scale is the only thing stopping my ferments from becoming a biohazard. I tried the "pinch and pray" method once and ended up with a jar of salty cabbage soup. Now I weigh everything like I'm in a lab, which feels silly until you taste that crisp, tangy perfection. My grandma would laugh at me for using a scale, but her batches were always a gamble.

Oh man, absolutely. A lady once told me "don't lose the baby pictures" while I was moving her desktop. That stuck in my head and I ended up finding a loose ram stick that wasn't fully clicked in. It would have crashed later for sure. I get what @fox.derek means about tuning out the chatter, but sometimes that one worried comment is a huge red flag about what they value, and it makes you slow down and triple-check your work. It turns their stress into your best checklist.

I had a flickering ThinkPad that a simple BIOS update fixed for good.