Failure Notes

Day 5: Failure Notes: Turn Downtime Into Data

If a tool fails repeatedly, it’s expensive, even if it was cheap to buy.

That $15 set of drill bits that dulls every other use? The sandpaper that clogs in 5 minutes? The clamp that slips? Each failure costs you time, material, and momentum. But without data, you just keep buying the same stuff. In fact, I’m kinda doing this with a set of router bits. I got 100+ bits (I think). It seemed like such a good deal, but I’ve used like 6 of these bits, one or two times each, and they are dull and I’m getting tear out.