Wait, @the_riley, your stapler gets heavy? What are you stapling all day, phone books? That's wild...

Study chess openings next, helps a ton.

Remember my friend who kept getting rushed in zero viz? He switched to 'progress by feel' (simple, right?) and the topside chatter actually eased up.

Try oil-based, it shrank less for me.

Our shop ran over three thousand programs through that same sim last year. Only two bad ones got through, and both were weird fixture setups. Honestly if your post process and work holding are solid, the sim catches 99% of problems. This feels like making a big deal out of a rare event.