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Rajeev Kumar · @drupler

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We all are so stupid sometimes that we can not see significant faults in our approach and blame the system.

I have been there countless times when I blamed the architecture design, software, network and whatnot for the things not working due to my wrongdoings, some silly, stupid mistakes which killed my days.

And then, most of the time, someone came playing the role of devil's advocate, as I felt at first. Felt like my intellect was being questioned, but then I found my silly mistake. I called myself stupid, but I learnt after a few incidents that we all need someone like this around sometimes -- asking us to check if everything is correct at our end, ask us to re-verify, try to get on the call to provide a different set of an eye or work together doing peer-programming -- even though making us feel bad this whole thing for the time being.

Many times they don't get any praise. But once we cross that blocker and retrospect, we can quickly identify their help and support on a personnel level. And when you do, keep them close -- they are not enemies. Even if they can't help you several times, it saves lots of time and energy when they hit the bull eye.

So when something like this happened recently, I remembered all those heroes without the cape, who didn't mind my occasional arrogancy and helped me save lots of time and energy, and gave me this thought to write down in dairy.

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