Here’s the title with the first paragraph:
Errors Merit Post-Mortems
After people make errors, they should do post-mortems. How did that error happen? What caused it? What thinking processes were used and how did they fail? Try to ask “Why?” several times to get to deeper issues than your initial answers.
The word postmortem seems to have a dash in between. What’s the correct phrase? Also, what does the title mean? What does it mean when something merits another thing? Like, there’s good reason for something to take place? What’s the definition? Here’s the definition from Cambridge dictionary:
If something merits a particular treatment, it deserves or is considered important enough to be treated in that way:
That’s cool that it says that something merits a particular treatment. For the article’s title, you can say that errors merit a particular treatment. Idk how much sense that makes cuz it sounds like a medical treatment. The particular treatment could be the postmortem. Postmortems investigate errors and fix them.
I know errors are important, like when we talk about errors, we’re not talking about small errors. If you’re having so many errors then you might be doing overly ambitious stuff or already have enough to investigate. When you make an error that for sure merits a postmortem cuz usually there’s an underlying cause. I think this has to do with generally seeing mistakes as a fairly big deal. Here’s part of the og quote:
Most mistakes come from underlying causes. That cause most likely caused a mistake you made. I think it makes sense then that a mistake merits a postmortem.
Here’s the first sentence of the top quote:
After people make errors, they should do post-mortems.
Saying they “should” means there’s reasons for it. Does the quote apply to everybody? Like, let’s say a person with 2-3 jobs? Or someone who’s in college studying for a degree? Should couples in relationships do postmortems? I think postmortems are good to get to the truth. If you get to the truth then you can understand things better and make better projects.
What about people doing overly ambitious stuff? Like, get rich projects? Should they do postmortems? I think the fact that you investigate errors is good in itself cuz you’re curious about them. You can figure out maybe that you make so many errors and that you’re really lost on something. Maybe, the get rich project isn’t a good idea?