Haha right? I bet somewhere in there someone actually died on that hill too. Classic.

@william_craig7 i tried this once with my sourdough and honestly it came out fine though tbh i was sweating bullets the whole time.

Some of us need to figure things out at our own speed though. If he shut you down right when you were starting out that could have killed your passion for the craft before it even got going. There's a difference between honest feedback and just being a jerk about it. Not everyone thrives under the tough love approach, some people need encouragement and room to make mistakes. I've seen people walk away from woodworking completely because somebody decided to be brutally honest instead of just helpful. Maybe he was right about the joints but wrong about how he said it.

My buddy tried the same thing and his open rates doubled too.

Yeah, I lost a whole raised bed of blueberries the same way. Took me three seasons of weak growth and no berries before I finally tested the soil. pH was at 6.8. I dumped elemental sulfur on them and it took almost a year to drop it down to 5.5. By then the roots were too damaged from the high pH locking up nutrients. They never bounced back. Now I test soil pH on anything I plant before I even put it in the ground. Saves a lot of heartache.