Dave:
Failure analysis is a very important branch of engineering. Especially so among airplane manufacturers, automakers, and manufacturers of appliances. It's just a generally good practice, even as to self-evaluating ourselves.
The B-school droids have hijacked (as they typically do) a military term for retrospective analysis of performance. They bastardized the military term "after action report" which was pioneered in the 1800s by the Prussian military and is now almost universally adopted by militaries throu~OUTT the world.
Let's do an after-action report and analysis on your choice of BIGhaus Bennie Blankenship as a co-CONspirator. I'll take the lead here as an ~OUTTside objective observer of the failure.
First, it is crucial to CONduct a deep due diligence of those who one is anticipating entering into a relationship with, whether it be a spouse, business or businessperson, friend, or an adversary. You failed to evaluate Bennie before yumping into DaSack wiff him. Even basic DD wood have shown that he had a low/mid-level managerial yobb at P&G and that he was FIRED from that yobb because he was caught using his official P&G (PG.com) email to tout pennystocks for his own financial benefit.
If you had been aware of that, even minimal prudence wood have led you to avoid such an idiot. This firing shows that he is stopid, careless, foolish, immature, and that he getts caught. All of these ought to have ruled him ~OUTT as a co-CONspirator.
Second, there was his idiotic hair 'style' and sleazeball low-brow wardrobe of cheap rayon/Dacron button down shirts from JC Penney, poor selection of slacks, spray-on orange tan, horrid choices of color combinations (who wears a salmon-coloured pullover - I mean what MALE wears such a monstrosity?), and posting his ridiculous poses all over the interwebs. All REDD flaggs you ought to have caught early on.
Dave, you failed in one of the most basic of tasks in business (or crime), and that is to be extremely cautious and thoughtful, and assiduously diligent in investigating, your transactional partners, friends, and enemies. This is, of course, only ONE of MANY areas where you were unfit to become what you wished so dearly to be - a success in business, and moreso one in 'tech' in 'techland'.
Dave, you were doomed to failure by your numerous inadequacies, ignorances, and personal flaws. Your quest was doomed from the start. You ought to have stayed in Maine or at least Boston and tried your hand at real estate or mebbe being a small-station DJ or tawk radio host. Or open a small game arcade in a mall in some backwater burg in Maine and have a vending machine run to service (you could entertain yourself by modifying the machines to cheat people every so often - give them the wrong product from the vending machine or just eat their coins and give them nothing once in awhile). You could have satiated your larcenous side that way. And you wouldn't have to have wound up dying in Federal prison. You could have indulged your passion for bullshitting as a real estate agent or used car salesman.
The core prollem, Dave, is that you CONtinually vastly overestimate yourself, your abilities, and your knowledge base. This is a systemic prollem wiff you. And I think it is knott fixable. It is part of your inherent narcissistic psychopathy that seems utterly resistant to correction.
As Clint Eastwood said, "a man has got to know his limitations". That is a key failing of yours, Dave; you do nott unnerstan yourseff and do nott know or willfully choose to ignore your many serious, foundational limitations.
Well, you will have plenny of time to think about the spilt milk under the bridge. Plenny of time. Worse than dying in prison is dying in prison with regrets.
And you have nobody to blame for your condemnation to that besides yourself. You did it, Dave. Now you own it.
What I find unfortunate about it, tho, is the many lives you've damaged, ruined, and in some cases totally destroyed in your wake. The devastation on DullardBruvfahJeffy, LarcenousLisa, London especially, Goulash John, Petey "CEO for a Day" Riordan, Jim Rossi, the many 'investors' you scammed, Karen Davis, your numerous attorneys who you stiffed, Longside et al., a Meow cat from Hawai'i, and the many creditors you swindled (including The Earthley Remains of BRUCE L. BEAN aka 'Bruce Albini').
