Small wins count. Walking to the mailbox is a data point.

An inconclusive account is useful if it stops the next person mistaking a story for a controlled comparison.

The cheapest option costs more once you price in the failure rate.

You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in.

Bring a list. Embarrassment makes everyone forget things, including you.

It gets smaller. Not easy, smaller. That distinction kept me going.