Installing mklinux in the late 90s on an old 6100 by transferring disks copied over the internet that took a few days each, while everyone was sleeping, and som

Installing mklinux in the late 90s on an old 6100 by transferring disks copied over the internet that took a few days each, while everyone was sleeping, and sometimes the disks failed, then getting the damn thing installed.. but then it worked! Gave me a reward for my perseverance, and I've been getting that reward since as I continue to stubbornly chase bugs and fix genuinely interesting problems. I learned by trial and error, before you could just google a problem and have it pop up in StackOverflow. It taught me one major lesson: debugging is how you learn about everything in the environment. A bug is an opportunity to explore the programming environment, framework etc and you'll get a grasp of the platform through searching for solutions. StackOverflow is nice for quick fixes but it doesn't give you the deep knowledge that debugging does. I recommend to my team, if they find a bug spend half a day figuring stuff out from the ground up (where we have that time luxury) and it makes everyone more knowledgable in the long term.