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Show Your Work – Especially When It’s Wrong

September 13, 2025

Figure 1: Bits of cured urethane that were supposed to be buttons.

I was the type that hated showing my work in math class. Who cares how I got to the answer, it’s correct isn’t it? Math always came easily to me so I’d often combine two or three steps in my head. Being told to show my work felt like an arbitrary and meaningless requirement, or maybe an accusation that I was cheating.

That’s not how I see things today. In my last post, The PicoFox Saga, I showed my process. Dumb ideas, wrong turns, and outright failures; if I left anything out it was for brevity. I did that while trying to market the PicoFox as a product. (I still am – you should buy one.)