Know when to quit and cut your losses

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Dr. Dave remembers helping a methodical and genuinely curious man through a failed Windows update. After nine days and an estimated hundred hours of good advice that did not solve the problem, the man finally reformatted, giving Dr. Dave a concrete example of the judgment required to stop learning from a repair and start over.

1:10 · Consulting Philosophy

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Proposed recording date: 2008-09-13. The exact broadcast date may differ.

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