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title: "Thoughts on Troubleshooting and Problem Solving"
date: 2009-01-19
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# Thoughts on Troubleshooting and Problem Solving
Working in technology, I spend a good amount of my time troubleshooting. When things go wrong, I've learned a few tips and techniques:

- Compare line by line against a working model

- List all the components and how they work together

- Challenge every assumption

- Reboot or reinstall

- Google the error messages you see

- Site-search key sites

- Come back to it later

- Contact an expert

- Post the question in a forum

- Send the problem across Twitter