[Discussion] regret is doing more work than we give it credit for
The title is the argument: regret is doing more work than we give it credit for. Here is the rest of it. Most of what gets posted here is procedural rather than dramatic: a step skipped, a document not requested, a temperature not considered, a pace chosen out of impatience. On being wrong in public, which is the…
Contemporaneous notes matter most in exactly the situations where people are least inclined to write them. Memory reorganises a bad fortnight into a tidier story with a clearer villain.
Contemporaneous notes matter most in exactly the situations where people are least inclined to write them.
Adding the thing that would have caught it earliest — buy small and test before committing.
the regret is usually about pace, not about the decision
Not convinced that was avoidable. Some of this is genuinely bad luck and treating everything as a lesson is its own trap.
somebody will read this at the point you were at, and it will help