Brutal honesty can be a wonderful trait all of its own in a team however. We can assume the author is not a BS artist from his very candid self-evaluation. This

Brutal honesty can be a wonderful trait all of its own in a team however. We can assume the author is not a BS artist from his very candid self-evaluation. This is a good thing he should hang onto. "My haphazard strategy resulted in three days of stress and frustration as I clambered to restore a self-hosting empire that I myself had reduced to ash."