It's a interesting story, but the author may be overselling it. It's not a _failure_ story, nor was it a 500M mistake. I get that it was really stressful and th

It's a interesting story, but the author may be overselling it. It's not a _failure_ story, nor was it a 500M mistake. I get that it was really stressful and the mistake could have cost him the job, but it didn't; it also didn't cost NASA anything other than a few hours of work (which, during testing, I would guess it's expected). When I'm asked to share failures, I'm usually not thinking about "that one time when I almost screwed up but everything was fine", instead, I'm thinking of when I actually did damage to the business and had to fix it somehow.