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Re: Hardest personal lesson learned?

Considering that most of what I do for the team is non-engineering and the fact that I – like anyone else – make a lot of mistakes, I could go on and on about this question. I'll stick to only one to keep it short, however.

During the final week of the build season, I was bogged down with the need to film and edit a reveal video, a chairman's video, and the sixth episode of KnightVlogger. I accomplished the first two rather well, but the latter I made (what I considered) an executive decision to discontinue the series, although keep producing similar content. It made sense in my mind time-wise and quality-wise, I just didn't consult the opinions of anyone on the team which was a pretty bad blunder on my part. While I felt the backlash I received a little unwarranted, through good communication we were able to agree on what to do moving forward. We took the video down and restructured our YouTube channel plan, which I think was a tremendously better outcome than I had foreseen. We still need to upload an update on what changes and plans we have, but it's comforting to at least know what we plan to do moving forward.

That's the mistake and solution more or less, without getting into too many details. Basically, you can never have too much communication, so always share your concerns, ideas, and plans with others before making a final decision.
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