Of course lots of AWS services have hidden dependencies on us-east-1. During a previous outage we needed to update a Route53(DNS) record in us-west-2, but couldn't because of the outage in us-east-1.
I would occasionally manage to start a bash shell without executing my profile, which means HISTFILESIZE is not set and bash would truncate my history on the first command I ran. zsh history may have a similar problem.
> if a card is in the Done column, you can assume the
> code is in version control, deployed to production
> and checked to make sure it didn't explode on impact.
I guess you've never seen a team argue over "Definition of Done" for months.
Not quite the same, but you may own CA taxes on stock options if you earned them while living in CA even if you don't live there when you cash them in.