What We Break Next
The post-mortem isn’t paperwork. It’s maintenance for creative systems.
Every project ends quietly.
A final export, a tired Slack thread, and someone says,
“We’ll do a post-mortem soon.”
Then the next job starts, and the same problems walk right into it.
Every production builds friction—missed notes, version drift, small tech fights that eat time.
Each one costs focus or trust.
Most teams don’t ignore post-mortems out of arrogance. They’re just out of gas when it’s time to do them.
But that’s when the lessons are sharpest, before memory smooths them over.
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A post-mortem isn’t about blame.
It’s pattern recognition.
If the work teaches you something and you don’t record it,
it’ll teach it to you again—usually at a worse time.
The solution doesn’t need another tool.
It needs ten quiet minutes and the discipline to write things down.
“If the work teaches you something and you don’t record it, it’ll teach it to you again—usually at a worse time.”
Field Notes
Reflection isn’t optional, it’s how you stop paying twice for the same mistake.
Build your post-mortem into delivery, not after it.
Document friction while it’s still fresh.
Share fixes in your next kickoff deck; turn lessons into systems.
Reliability is the real creative currency.
Post-mortems are how you earn it.