Another aspect of ego management is constantly keeping in mind that you could be wrong, while trying to track down some tricky problem. I remember quite a few

Another aspect of ego management is constantly keeping in mind that you could be wrong, while trying to track down some tricky problem. I remember quite a few times sitting next to someone trying to debug something, asking something like: "So are we sure that parameter there is correct?" ... they'll say "Oh yeah, that's definitely not the problem" ... fifteen minutes later, after bashing our heads on the desk a bit, we actually check that value: "Whoa, what?! That's impossible!"