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When you can't foresee every way your design could kill someone

I signed off on the drawings today, and last night I lay awake running through the ways this part could break that I haven't thought of yet. People I'll never meet will trust their safety to my math, and I know my imagination can't reach every failure. I'm caught between the humility that keeps me careful and a fear that could freeze me from ever shipping anything at all.

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You must design for failures you can't foresee without letting the fear of them paralyze you.

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