[150030] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Common operational misconceptions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Jones)
Fri Feb 17 12:48:11 2012
From: Jerry Jones <jjones@danrj.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120217173356.GB18459@jeeves.rigozsaurus.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:47:02 -0600
To: John Osmon <josmon@rigozsaurus.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 17, 2012, at 11:33 AM, John Osmon wrote:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:18:57AM -0500, Steve Clark wrote:
> I agree with this 100%.
>=20
> Having worked with many people over the last 40 years, the good =
trouble=20
> shooters understood how things
> were suppose to work. This helps immeasurably in determining where to =
start=20
> looking.
Don't forget that a lot of the best figure things out *while*
troubleshooting things they don't (yet) understand.
Give curious people good tools and interesting problems -- the rest will
sort itself out.
Quote I have hear over the years
"Problems are opportunities for learning - Just wish I was not doing so =
much learning some days...."=
