
When the van had an electrical problem, the instinct wasn’t to take it to a shop — it was to diagnose it. Tracing wiring, testing circuits, understanding the vehicle’s power system well enough to isolate the fault and fix it. It’s a small project, but it’s representative: the same diagnostic thinking that works on a Kubernetes cluster works on a 12-volt electrical system. Understand the system, isolate the variable, test the hypothesis.