I can believe that - there is always the risk of what amounts to (hopefully mild) narcissism ( and the inevitable insecurity that narcissism spawns ). There's

I can believe that - there is always the risk of what amounts to (hopefully mild) narcissism ( and the inevitable insecurity that narcissism spawns ). There's always a missing subtext to something like this - this really does have a "John Henry and the steam drill" feel to it. "Chaos Monkey is now the story. You are not of the body. GTFO." Bummer, man :) I love your last paragraph. The Thing is the only one what knows when it will come to be. Over-grinding is a definite anti-pattern. There is probably not a general theory of this - it's just going to be wrong a lot.